Watercolour evokes a delightful sweetness from my childhood and from art school where my favourite teacher Bohdan Bodnaruk first taught me to see colour and gave me some wise life advice – “If you do not know how to paint, look at nature”.

This is definitely why I admire beautiful landscapes and subsequently paint them: capturing their basics simply, without too much detail, to develop the colourful blots and enjoy the practice of the process.

These quick paintings enormously nourish me, my creativity and imagination – and they often become the source of some of my large-scale projects. Although, there are times where I want to draw small sketches for myself, just for fun, always savouring the process.