" When I first arrived on the island of Santorini, I was overcome with delight and awe. I couldn\'t believe that there was a place on earth with such a beautiful color scheme. The reliefs on the island are dated back to the ancient times and I am glad to have devoted my passion for art to the same True Greek style of artwork. Under the guidance of the island\'s elders, I learned the lost techniques and the materials they used. I use the same earth and stones they used to create the authentic Santorinian houses and paint with the same age-old techniques."

3-dimensional illusionism

"The play between sensation, perception and representation fascinates me. Within my work, I try to set up relationships that confound our conventional understandings of ‘realistic representation’ and replace them with ideas about visual language and subjective experience, a kind of visual trickery in witch painted forms seem to be real. I make work which can be seen as both sculptural and pictorial, where the 3-dimensional illusionism of the image conflicts with the actual dimensionality of the object upon which it is drawn. Or i may make work which is simultaneously figurative and conceptually abstract. In all cases the goal is to build a relationship between the subject matter, the representation of the subject and the materiality of the object which reveals something about what goes on beneath  the surface  of my own consciousness.."


Stavros Galanopoulos