Tadeush Zhakhovskyy creative process | Artist’s Method

Tad’s creative process is a fascinating journey of discovery and exploration. Each painting evolves, guiding the artist in new and unexpected ways. This process is not about creating a specific object, but about letting the painting come to life

Artist’s Insights of Color Dimention by Tadeush Zhakhovskyy:

• From my perspective, my artworks are not reflections of any of my everyday emotions, feelings, or attitudes.
• After being engaged in fine arts for about 30 years, I noticed that the power that gives you creativity can act paradoxically on the inner world of an artist and their sensations of the outside world.
• I think that creativity, as an art, is just another form of life that exists within us or nearby, and it can exist right now, paradoxically, for any thoughts, images, feelings, and social prejudices.
• I think that what I convey in my paintings is not something that is around or within me, but rather something that is not there. And due to the picture, it’s appearing there.
• Before I begin the next painting, I have only some kind of new combined image, most likely thrown to me by Creativity, who was scampering about here. And now I feel like an inner childish desire, a demand: ‘I want thi-i-s’!
• But creativity seems not very concerned about how I ‘transfer into reality’ that thrown-to-me image. I need to puzzle out this image first (‘What’s that’? ), then I need to fit it to the composition of a painting and deal with colors. And, finally, I am to put myself together, to switch off the outside world, and to make my way again through this, familiar to every artist, difficult, complicated, and weird process of making a painting.
• And in the end, I confess I don’t understand sometimes—why is it pictured this way?
• But I am fairly sure of the mood that brought the painting on and that, I dare to hope, is attached to the painting.
• A mood is innate to the image; that’s what fine art is all about to me.