Gallery
Lost Forest
(2022 - 2023)These paintings are made with charcoal, ashes and red earth I found after a wildfire near our village in Greece.These wildfires are a result of the climatchange. With these paintings I want to make a statement that we have to stop the pollution and and take care of our nature. All the paintings are made with the egg-tempera technique.
The Greek Light
(2020)These watercolors Are made in my gardenstudio in Greece. I tried to capture the Greek light, that surrounded me
Sehnsucht the german word for Longing
(2020)These paintings I made during the lockdown because of the Coronacrisis in 2020. It are all egg-tempera paintings I made in my studio. They are on canvas and paper.
Oilpaitings on wood
(2019)In the summer 2019 I made some oilpaintins on wood in our house in Greece. It are abstract paintings inspired by Greece. The cultural layers, the colours, the transparency, the rhythm in the water and land, dynamics and writing.
Summer 2018
(2018)Eggtempera paintings wich I painted in Greece and Russia. In Greece in our own house and in Russia during a plein-air paitingsymposium. The paintings are abstract, but the have also a landscape look. Also the white churches and monestaries in Russia were of influence.
At the End..
(2011 - 2018)Portraits of people at the end of their life, some of them have allready died . Fear, vulnarebillity, sometimes Alzheim, all sort of expressions can be seen on their faces.
Greece 2016
(2016)The works in this group don't have a titel. I leave the viewer with his own assotiations.
Project in progress, Geek villagers
(2008 - 2015)Project in progress. For many years now I am working on a very special project. I am painting the portraits of the inhabbitants of the small village in Greece where I spent some months a year. I want in this way to honour the villagers that worked all their lives and are now confrontated with a new Europe. Loosing a way of life that was there for such a long time.
Egg Tempera big size
(2016)In the beginningnof 2016 I have worked on larger sizes with egg tempera. This is a technike in witch you use egg, water, oil and pigments. You can decide, if you use strong colours or more transparent colours. The paint is brought on in layers. Its getting more alive.
under the olivetrees
(2014)In the summer of 2014 I made egg tempera paintings in our oliveyard.
Portrait
(2004 - 2016)Portraits in commision.
Abstractions in blue
(2012 - 2013)These works give us an impression of space.
Epirus 2010
(2010)Works on paper created in Greece in 2010
Landscape
(2001 - 2010)Landscapes of longing.. Imaginary landscapes where one can get lost in.
Landscape small
(2003 - 2009)Small works on canvas, usually 40x50 cm. Abstract landscapes.
works on paper
(1998 - 2010)This works on paper are made in Ano Kotsanopoulon. They are painted with ink and watercolour. The ink is for the forms and the watercolour is bringing the atmosphere and the colour.They show the direct surrounding of this village in the greek mountains.
graphic works
(1992 - 2009)Prints, mainly woodcuts and lithography. Printmaking is an interesting completion next to my paintings.