Biography
I view art as a means for experiencing the sacredness of the Cosmos. Consequently, my art aims to express ideas, ideals and feelings and to convey messages at the personal, social, political, philosophical and mystic levels. I paint my everyday experiences transformed into myths, using the symbols of the world's ancient traditions and of my subconscious.
I refuse to let my style fossilize into some, commercially and otherwise, convenient ever-repeated "recipe". I remain ever fluid, I tend to be multifold, to assimilate and combine elements mainly from the Italian Renaissance, the Flemish and German “Primitives”, the Japanese Sumi-e, the “Sezessionsstil”, the “Neue Sachlichkeit”, Surrealism, and certain genres of European Comics.
In order to bestow on my paintings a “theatrical” or “cinematographic” atmosphere, combined with a dream-like element of “slow motion”, I twist space, mostly by using wide-angle perspectives combined with a "bird's eye" or "worm's eye" view, often by applying multiple view-points which shift from one area of the canvas to the next, creating thus the illusion of viewing the work through a moving cinematographic camera.
