I paint from a condition of migration. Born in Greece, raised between England and Cyprus, and now living in Wales, my work is shaped by sustained movement across borders. Migration operates not as a narrative subject, but as a material and psychological force within the painting.
Rather than depicting landscape as external scenery, I approach it as an internal and transitional space — a threshold shaped by memory, dislocation and the instability of belonging.
Transitional space is central to my practice: dusk between day and night, tidal shifts between advance and retreat, the psychological state between departure and arrival. These in-between conditions resist fixed identity and stable ground; the paintings inhabit this suspended territory.
The diptych has become increasingly central to this inquiry. I work across two canvases simultaneously as a way of holding, and attempting to reconcile, division. Each panel carries a parallel state — here and there, past and present, departure and arrival. The space between them is not neutral but charged: a fault line, a time difference, a psychological meridian. The gap becomes a site where tension is sustained rather than resolved.
Gestures migrate across the divide but resist symmetry. Light intensifies on one surface and recedes on the other. Colour crosses, falters and reappears. The canvases echo and contradict each other, reflecting the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural and temporal frameworks at once.
Through painting, I seek to articulate transitional space not as absence, but as charged potential — a lived terrain where identity remains in motion and home is continually redefined.
Rather than depicting landscape as external scenery, I approach it as an internal and transitional space — a threshold shaped by memory, dislocation and the instability of belonging.
Transitional space is central to my practice: dusk between day and night, tidal shifts between advance and retreat, the psychological state between departure and arrival. These in-between conditions resist fixed identity and stable ground; the paintings inhabit this suspended territory.
The diptych has become increasingly central to this inquiry. I work across two canvases simultaneously as a way of holding, and attempting to reconcile, division. Each panel carries a parallel state — here and there, past and present, departure and arrival. The space between them is not neutral but charged: a fault line, a time difference, a psychological meridian. The gap becomes a site where tension is sustained rather than resolved.
Gestures migrate across the divide but resist symmetry. Light intensifies on one surface and recedes on the other. Colour crosses, falters and reappears. The canvases echo and contradict each other, reflecting the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural and temporal frameworks at once.
Through painting, I seek to articulate transitional space not as absence, but as charged potential — a lived terrain where identity remains in motion and home is continually redefined.
You are more than welcome to visit my studio to see where I work, please contact me to arrange a time.
Based in Glynneath near the famous waterfall country, why not follow up a studio visit with a lovely walk to the stunning waterfalls.
