Each portrait begins with a person, not a concept waiting to be illustrated. My work as a portrait artist is commissioned, but never templated: every image is built around who the sitter actually is, what they carry, and what they are willing to reveal in front of the camera.
The process moves between conversation, staging, and interpretation. I ask questions before I ask for a pose. What results is not a record of how someone looks, but an image negotiated between the two of us, shaped as much by them as by me.
Portrait commissions are developed individually. Available formats and further information are provided on request.
CONCEPTUAL PORTRAITS
CONCEPTUAL PORTRAITS work from research, not invention. Before a session, I look for something specific and true about the person: an object they have carried through decades, a transition they have lived through, a private history they might not think to mention. The staging translates that fact into an image, an installation of glasses worn across a lifetime, a cocoon becoming a wing. The concept is not applied to the person. It is drawn out of them.
Kai
Angelica
Emel
Oliver
UNFRAMED FACES
UNFRAMED FACES is a minimalist portrait series exploring the face beyond conventional ideas of identity and expression.
Reduced through lines, paint, shadow, and abstraction, the portraits shift attention away from clear interpretation and toward form, texture, presence, and perception. The face becomes less a fixed identity and more a surface open to projection and reflection.
The series moves between portraiture and abstraction, questioning how we look at others — and how we define what we see.
WHO ARE YOU, LOOKING AT ME?
