New Painting March 6th 2012. Acrylic on Canvas 50x60 cm 'Uluru'
The above images are from the recent painting 'Sister-Saint'. The painting started life as a black and white image, as you can see from the first face in the sequence and then slowly evolved. I had no specific plan, other than to work from a 1960's photograph of my sister Rita, to create a quasi-religious painting The face evolved into a simile, rather than a realistic portrait. I was at that point concerned with capturing the beauty of her younger years, and decided to play on the angelic quality of the face and the cleverly used studio lighting. My sister is of course saintly in many ways, so I created an Icon of her and also kept the black and white photograph. December 2011.
Why a website? For conservation and posterity mostly. Here, I will try to bring together the many hundreds of pieces of work that I have made over the years. Some pieces are now long gone, several all over the world, sold, given as presents or claimed by friends. I hope that the images here will bring happy memories back to some of you and may even inspire you in some way.
George Sfougaras
