"It took me many years to abandon the formal landscape painting tradition that I evolved in for most of my life and to move into a liberated way of painting where the representation of a subject no longer had any significance.

 In comparison with my figurative period, where I used to be seated for hours at an easel in a passive manner, these abstract works engage far more physical effort from stretching and preparing my own canvases, to the use of ladders to paint some of them, as they are mostly executed in large sizes."