Paintings archive
A Walk in the City
The first painting I did while staying in Scotland. It has the things I observed during my long walks in Aberdeen. Massive grey multi store building buildings, homeless people on Union square and sea. I consider it a good painting but in comparison to the others it is kind of siff.
Falling Castle
This painting was inspired by the accident on piper alpha oil platform on 1988. I heard about that story from some colleagues and after some research I discovered that it had a severe impact on Aberdeen’s society. Visually there are references to a print by expressionist artist Kathe Kollwitz titled “The mothers”. This suffocating crowd creates a felling of imminent fear. The title falling caste came up when one of my tutors saw a sketch I did from my visit to the Dunotar castle and then mentioned the correspondence of that castle to the oil platform on the canvas
Painters Portrait
When I visited the Edinburgh national gallery I saw The Trinity Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes. Inspired by this piece I wanted to create a painting that has only one figure on it, so I decided to take as a reference the forth panel depicting Saint George. The composition had to be vertical in order to distinct the character from the others. After a couple of days I decided to give a different perspective because it would be the only canvas that has one figure on, it had to be a unique one. I decided to combine the image of saint George from the altarpiece with the grimy images of amputated soldiers from world war one and elements that imply a self portrait like the red coat I had or the black beanie. This panting is amidst the two main thematic columns of my artworks: Religious iconography and War art/images
Excavation
This is the last painting I made before convid outbreak. I included a thorough documentation of the stages it went through because I think it is quite interesting. Initially I wanted to create a scene with fishermen and anachronistic archetypical figures. Later I saw a painting by Cole, Leslie called a mother mourning the death of a priest and I tried to add these two figures of dead son and mother on the narrative. After some time I saw it to my tutor telling him that I think it is a finished piece. We had a very interesting discussion about it and he motivated me to take a step further. Thus I decided to destroy it in order to regenerate it. That would help me experiment and at the same time to define which parts I want to keep and which I don’t. I was surrounded by cardboards and so I decided to cover it and gradually take some parts of cardboards off revealing what’s underneath. This process gave a new perspective to the piece.
