🔸 To start, I would say that the most important idea about my art is that I use my imagination, I don't use models or references, I observe carefully around me every time I go out, but even though I am a careful observer my work is not based on reality. Realism is not what I am looking for. 

🔸 I was born in Yerevan, Armenia. My family’s roots go deep, on the one hand to Nagorno-Karabakh, and the other, to Tbilisi. My mother was a primary school teacher. That’s from her I received the first lessons of art in general. She was a very intelligent person who was fond of painting and poetry.

🔸 My painting lies where my conscience does, It is the expression of my inner life. this is why It changes with me and keeps changing over the years. I like to paint guided by my imagination, but I also turn for help with my experience and my feelings toward the world and my life.

🔸 As I said before, my art Is inspired on the ancient Gods or archetypes, so my subjects express themselves in the void where all things are born, Gods, Magus, Angels, Mermaids and all kind of ancient entities, they abide in a space where time does not exist, they are atemporal.

🔸 Literature is part of the Art Family. It is like a brother, as it is also music, sculpture, cinema, dance. It should not be a father. otherwise, the painter becomes an illustrator. I appreciate illustrations, but it is another pair of shoes. However, I believe that painting has his poetics. 

 🔸 I started painting when I was 30. I began to paint portraits of my grandmother and my wife. I don't know how to name these portraits' stile. The only thing I knew was that I should be different from other artists. From the beginning, it was a search of my personal identity. In Academy, I had been taught how to make classical sculptures. probably, fortunately, I hadn't been taught how to paint. 

🔸 It is not about particular colors but about certain intensity and quality of light in the color. I was born and raised in the Caribbean, and I live up north in Cleveland, Ohio. The light is different, but I still paint with the same color intensity that I did when I was living in Cuba. There are some things that are just part of who I am 

🔸 There is no real secret. each step is vital to the next step. you can apply paint beautifully but if the drawing underneath is poorly done, it will result in a poor painting. each step supports each other... none is more important than the other. that being said, I really enjoy working out the color and the actual painting part the most. but the drawing has to be done correctly to get to those stages.