ArriversRefugees / 10 Painting

I have had the calling to paint all of my life. After having lived in different countries of various cultures I am now a Swiss resident of the Greek island of Paros where I have worked for many years. Due to biographic coincidences, the combination of different talents, interests and opportunities I have worked in various projects, in widely different areas of life. The center is always my creative work as an artist. I am continuously developing my awareness, understanding and doing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Usual learning, usual institutions, usual teachers have never been a fit for me. For all the techniques, knowledge and abilities I needed to learn I found the optimal teachers. I learned most by the pictures of all the great painters before me and by my constant intensive working. Around 1986 I gave up most of my technical skills, methods and effects and as a result my work became autonomous, relevant and singular. I have always found sequences in simultaneous motions, directions (or they discovered me, of course) to my own transreal work. Topics, projects, paintings develop permanently within me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My attitude is constant: I do not arrive, I continue. I do not create a rigid brand label. I am responsible for my work, but neither its constructor nor controller, simply part of these developing processes. I work incessantly. Ideals I do not have. I do feel relationships however. Of the breadth of my interests and various cultural influences I feel like a distant cousin of the Renaissance artists while at the same time, due to the daily intensity of my work and constant development, I am also a relative of the creatoholics of modern art. We are absolute. We are passionate. We work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My position in the art of the present: I do not work according to the rules of the art market. Therefore I create my own area based on classical conditions, demands on me, and attentiveness to the present. My work does not fit into the boxes of the usual classifications. It is transreal: in constant movement, not at the end of a frozen style, instead it enables different realities to connect while inviting others into them. It creates abundance.