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Oil Paintings

In 2020, after more than 10 years of working almost exclusively digitally, I started painting with oils again. I still remember the feeling I had when I saw the great masterpieces in the galleries of London. I was overwhelmed to the point of tears. I stood there wishing I could experience what it is like to create something so utterly beautiful... Working digitally has many unique advantages, and digital art has a beauty of its own, but the experience of classical painting is unique: holding the brush in your hand, mixing the buttery colours on the palette, and creating something that exists in reality, not just behind a screen, creating a time capsule through each brushstroke that records the artist's gestures forever... what a wonderful thing! 

What a joy it is to paint, to create a beautiful object and to bring to life an image that previously existed only in your imagination!

 

Through my fine art practice I explore the beauty of light and of the fleeting moments, focusing on the figurative and the imaginative. 

2026

A mystical peaceful atmosphere reminiscent of Chiaroscuro with three Christian Orthodox Priests singing the Lord's Lamentation, in church lit by candle lights.

2025

Colorful and heartwarming panting of girl and her dog that's looking up at her lovingly.

2024

Oil painting of a girl parting with her beloved dog
oil painting of a beautiful girl with long dark hair opening a jar with fireflies flying out
oil painting of woman in white dress in an ancient forest with her dog
Portrait of young woman
Oil painting portrait of Saint Nektarios of Aegina

2020

Realistic portrait
Oil painting of young girl in a field of yellow grass
oil painting portrait of man with hat

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