Is there any intended connection to recognizable shape, form or concrete idea?
MLG: No, you havent missed anything. It might seem incongruous to you being here onthe island of Hydra facing the sunset on this terrace overlooking the sea to interview a painter who lives here, but whose work does not blatantly seek to capture the unique physical beauty of the landscape. In my own way I think that I respond very much to this environment but my response is situated on an abstract plane. You can understand that with a studio situated in such a tranquil location, one is naturally dragged into contemplation. The many aspects of the path to contemplation and the issuing surge of energy it brings about are actually at the root of my artistic production. I believe that my abstract works on canvas since the 80s cannot be considered as a series of individual paintings but rather as a continuum, a body of works exploring the realm of two strange bed fellows: serenity and chaos. It is the image of the interplay of this process with the Visual that I capture. It becomes a tangib
