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I am a visual artist and painter, trained at the School of Fine Arts and a former journalist for print media. My work is based on graphic improvisation, the fusion of line and color. My aesthetics sit in a lineage that spans from prehistoric art, street art and comics to Surrealism, 1980s Free Figuration, 14th-century painting, Hieronymus Bosch, Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Rooted in drawing, my work develops as a form of spontaneous art made of colorful and chaotic images, mirrors of the world and of my own imagination. Meaning and structure emerge retrospectively, like a labyrinthine 'work in progress,' a kaleidoscope of signs drawn from archetypes, universal symbols, but also from the world as it moves forward, embedded in snippets of autobiography and nods to the history of art.