I have been painting for years, although I have never quite known what to call the relationship.

I often begin with an image, an impulse, a colour, a mark or simply a feeling that something needs to exist.

Then I follow it.

Sometimes I know what I'm doing. Often I don't.

The work has surprised me, frightened me, explained things to me and occasionally seemed to know something before I did.

I have learned not to interfere too much.

This space is where I keep those encounters.

— Gvantsa