Artist’s territory 8

This is the eighth piece in a series of paintings in Artist Territory. For a while, I was haunted by a vision of the provocative combination of orange and pink on the cardboard. I wanted a provocative and shocking effect on the viewer.

The interplay of vivid colours and emphasised texture invites tactile engagement, whereas the spiky surface deters it, rendering the work ambivalent.

Artist territory is the series of paintings that are at the centre of the concept, which includes art itself and the artist’s work. Each territory is like a map of an individual territory, representing freedom of the spirit and creation. Surfaces are abstract textures and shapes of territories that remind us of maps of actual countries or allude to terms that can be connected with artistic creation and question the phenomenon of the art process.