My name is Jonas Ademes and I come from a little village located near the Luxembourg border. I have been interested in painting since my youth. That is also when I began to study painting myself and gaining experience in this area. It was my interest in fine arts that made me quit my studies at university and start an apprenticeship in stone carving. Working on stone can be compared to painting. Each of them has shown me new aspects within the area of the other. So the work with the three dimensional medium stone changed my visual thinking which I can use in painting.

Stone carving and painting became for me a place of rest, a place of retreat. A place that looks just the same as you imagine it to be in that particular moment. Consistent and yet very dynamic. A place that interacts with the visitor. A place with corners and alleys someone is already familiar with and yet still needs to be explored. A place of excitement and reassurance. An everlasting discovery, founded on taking time for myself, bringing the right amount of attentiveness and recognizing and portraying the things in the way they are for me.

During my studies, I have realized that everything depends on the perspective. Thus, the reality is always perceived differently. There is an absolute reality, but it is not the one I perceive. Perception is control. While certain things are important to me, they are not to others. I live in a social enviroment with expectations and demands. Things are being compared, measured and controlled. Even those that I believe cannot be measured.

If my conception of reality changes, my art will change too. This can be partly determined by me. An emotional moment, in which you are at the mercy of the reality, determines my point of view on me and my environment. I do not convey a message but a feeling.

The creative processes I have gone through reflect my reality. They reflect the beauty of the interplay of powerlessness in the moment and power in the process of creating. At the beginning of the creative process, I can decide on a theme, the material and the working method. I can read about it, perceive and reflect on inspirations. Meanwhile, I act intuitively. That means: it has to be that way. I do not question. Usually, I cannot even remember the action itself. Exactly this moment of beauty is expressed in my works.

The feeling during the creative process should be sensed in the result.

Jonas Ademes