About the artist
My artistic practice is based on the belief that painting can preserve what time gradually erases. I work primarily with oil paints on linen and cotton canvas, often incorporating handmade paper, textured paste, plaster-coated gauze, gold leaf, and gold dry particles. I gradually build up each surface through relief, translucent glazes, impasto areas, and partially hidden marks. The material is not simply decorative; it carries memory and becomes an essential part of the image.
My work moves between contemporary figurative painting, symbolic images, and the Mediterranean landscape. I am drawn to archetypal figures, ancient civilizations, sacred symbols, weathered walls, and traces of human presence.
Diptych – “Mediterranean Mirage” approaches the landscape as an inner state rather than a geographical description. Layers of oil paint and handmade bamboo paper dissolve the boundary between sea, shore, fog, and memory. The two panels form a continuous horizon, evoking the elusive silence and timeless atmosphere of the Mediterranean.
Diptych – “Fragments of Eden / Adam and Eve” revisits the primal human couple through a contemporary interpretation inspired by Albrecht Dürer. The pale, eroded figures appear as fragments removed from an ancient wall, exploring innocence, vulnerability, division, and the enduring memory of a primordial unity.
My education in architecture and construction has shaped my understanding of proportion, structure, space, and material. I approach the canvas almost as if it were an architectural surface, building, eroding, hiding, and revealing it until the image finds its own balance. Through my paintings, I strive to create a space of silence and contemplation where beauty, fragility, memory, and spiritual presence can exist beyond words.
