Painting without drawing: my way of creating

When I begin a painting, I never start with a preparatory drawing. What guides me is not the outline, but the intention to capture an essence, something I feel and try to convey directly and intuitively.

My work takes shape through immediate brushstrokes, which shape the subject on the canvas as it appears to me, without mediation. In this first phase, I directly choose the shades and colors, covering the entire surface: as if the painting needed to breathe immediately in its entirety.

Only then do I begin to highlight, to bring out the volumes, to accentuate the contrasts and to revisit certain parts already drawn. It is a process that often requires two or three passes, a continuous dialogue with the canvas, until the work finds its balance.

For me, painting means this: letting intuition flow, following the color, letting the form emerge gradually, without confining it to a pre-established pattern.