HellasART.net
hellasart.net is the online gallery of my photographs and paintings. All the work is Greek-themed and is inspired by visits to Greece, and by things Greek. Gallery [1]: MiscART consists of miscellaneous works. These are compositions in acrylic as well as photo-collages. The abstract compositions are interpretations of specific works of my favourite Greek poets and writers; Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos, George Seferis, Angelos Sikelianos and Constantine P. Cavafy. There are also two of my larger-scale iconographic works. Gallery [2]: IconART is a gallery of icons. I painted them to be used as illustrative material in a booklet, Icons of the Great Feasts, which I was commissioned to write and illustrate. The works are accompanied by a description of, and commentary on, each panel. My interest in iconography was inspired by my earlier visits to Greece and Russia. I was subsequently tutored in the art of iconography by master-iconographer Guillem Ramos-Poqui. I have been commissioned to write a number of booklets on the subject, of which one, Images of Byzantium, was selected as a merchandising item for an exhibition of Russian Icons at The Royal Academy of Art, London, in 1996. Gallery [3]: PhotoART is a gallery of my photographic work; all based on the theme of “Colours and Textures of Greece and Her Islands”. Photographic work is the main focus of my creative endeavours at present. It is an ongoing “project” from which I derive much enjoyment and satisfaction. I have built up a substantial portfolio of these subjects, a number of which are exhibited in the gallery.