Large paintings interpreting the formal rhythmic structures in the Forest
   all are 1.8m by 1.3m

The series of paintings and drawings “Images of the Greek Landscape”, have come about from a recent trip to Limnos, it is the land from which I immigrated as an eight year old.  

The charcoal drawings were done on location and the paintings developed on my return to Melbourne .  

These images are from different view points of a town called Kondias which sits between rocky hills as do many towns in Greece .  

It is a landscape with primordial presence, which until recent times, had not been defaced with modern construction.  

The manner in which I interpret what I see into images has developed over the years and refers to aspects of the modern European tradition.  

In the multitude of visual activity of the landscape I look for rhythms that connect houses,trees and rock, as the eye travels from the foreground into the distant space. These specific forms are generalized into shapes in order to create a structure that gives unity to all the parts.  

In a small way these pictures are my personal homage to the land of my ancestors and in the Greek spirit of joyful witness to the presence of light, form and space.

 Reproduced with the permission of the Painter  P. Laspagis