Infinite tenderness

It happens, more often than not, that I madly love some paintings. I both love them and I’m affected by them for some kind of disturbing quality. It’s something that draws me to the painting, but also makes me feel it’s incomplete. It’s such a struggling time in the studio!

That’s when new aesthetic ideas come to life.

In the story of ‘Infinite tenderness’ there’s such mixed feeling: love and hate, something very good and something still pushing to find its perfect balance in the painting.

I worked on the dark waves and found them very soothing, with a good movement that was taking my eyes around the canvas, making me feel free and weightless, somehow.

But it wasn’t enough.

Only weeks later, and after a lot of looking from all angles and thinking, I started putting that peach color on the canvas - not an easy color for me either! That’s when I could feel-see-imagine-paint all those petals floating over the waves, that gentleness, liveliness, fragility and sheer beauty that I feel when I look around in the flower markets.

This painting was the start of a new series - Blossom waves - incorporating more vibrant colors and this idea that flowers and water can find new ways to meet.

That’s also the (excruciating sometimes) beauty of painting and finding new ways of expressing kindness.