I am a traditional independent British artist of Baltic-Slavic origins based in West Sussex, UK.

I see faces and shadows in marks, cracks, and accidental shapes. Those shapes and shadows just need a bit of highlighting or outlining to help them to emerge fully. 

Barthes wrote that ‘The Birth of the Reader must come at the cost of the Death of the Author.’ I wish to create art that gives the audience freedom of interpretation, without imposing my personality on the work.

From my teenage years, I was fascinated by the works of surrealists and the use of surrealist art techniques.  

I use automatic drawing and preparing canvas through random processes to create an image that pre-exists any artistic intention. I then paint to elucidate what (or whom) I see on the canvas. This vision is the result of pareidolia: the phenomenon of intuitive association of objects with faces or other forms due to a vague, partial resemblance. 

Because these images are produced and experienced subconsciously, I believe that they can help us to access the reality hidden behind our fixed, conscious notions of what we ‘should’ see, in a similar way to the use of pareidolia in ancient divination rituals such as ceromancy, this is why I approach a process of art making as a spiritual practice.