Anthesis (Hylē)
2025
Oil on canvas
190 × 160 cm
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Extraversia
Medium
Oil on canvas
Period
2019 to now
Works
16
Extraversia comes out of a split I've carried for a while. I love painting from observation, light and shadow, the particular quality of a foggy morning, and at the same time I can't work only from what's in front of me. Since I started working with oil, abstraction has run alongside the observational work, not replacing it. Extraversia is what happens when I stop holding back.
I start from something I've seen, a breakfast, a table, someone sitting across from me, and I paint without a sketch, without deciding ahead of time what I'll keep and what I'll let go of. Usually most of it goes. What's left is just enough to still recognize where it came from.
The series has a few earlier pieces, but it really started at the turn of 2019 into 2020, when the shift into abstraction became a conscious one. I still go back to painting from life sometimes. The two haven't cancelled each other out.
Genesis (Hylē)
2025
Oil on canvas
190 × 160 cm
Autumn
2020
Oil on canvas
50 × 50 cm
Breakfast
2020
Oil on canvas
120 × 100 cm
Chocolate with pepper
2020
Oil on canvas
110 × 100 cm
Coffee for two
2020
Oil on canvas
80 × 60 cm
Festive
2020
Oil on canvas
55 × 75 cm
Supper
2020
Oil on canvas
50 × 80 cm
The Great day
2020
Oil on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Transformation
2020
Oil on canvas
60 × 60 cm
Travel
2020
Oil on canvas
50 × 60 cm
Honey Feast of the Saviour
2019
Oil on canvas
70 × 130 cm
Kiss
2019
Oil on canvas
80 × 90 cm
Still life with a bird
2019
Oil on canvas
80 × 130 cm
Cat and Fish
2018
Oil on canvas
100 × 100 cm
Studio 116A
2014
Oil on canvas
50 × 60 cm