Children of the Serpent

I packed my canvas with paint into my little car and drove off. Usually I go where the paintings want to be started. During this journey I reached the seaside and stayed at my friends home. Not surprisingly, that in such artistic family future artist is risen, her name is Upė. One day after talking to her about painting, we decided to go into the width of creativity together. This is how this painting began.

I start my works without any preconceived idea or vision, I observe what environment I am in, what my feelings are and I allow myself not to know, sometimes I even strive for that. I shared about this creative process with young artist Upė, who, having caught its creative bird, continues its flight on canvas.

A few weeks passed and I came to the seaside again with this unfinished piece, but this time I stayed with other close friends. I couldn’t say anything about the painting yet, it was still just a captured energy I caught at the seaside. A few days of uncertainty the participants of the painting began to stand out in the garden of colors. I have noticed that the circumstances and the space in which I appear at that time intertwine directly with the future work. The sea and a family of close friends.

The image of the family was becoming clearer and clearer. The children sitting next to each other with the mother who holds in her hands the radiant father’s head. Maybe it’s the same characters turned back from the trees into the people because they got back their once lost father? The painting left it to us, the viewers, to decide on this. In this way we become co-creators of this legendary myth. After all, mythology is alive and exists in us at this moment.

Thank you dear friends for the shelter and Upė for your company in this journey of this painting.