“Engraver and painter, consistent of his inner world, with a persistent look at the peaceful contemplation of the life and light of Greece and in the fifty-eight consecutive years of his creativity, he left us a work characterized by the light… As an engraver and innovator he creates a new path of peculiar performance of visual reality, especially in his landscapes. He was interested, first and foremost, to conquer another image of Greece. A more poetic image, an image emphasizing the slim color formulation. From the series of colored woodcuts, from the Aegean to Olympia and from Delphi to Attica, he makes an invaluable use of white prints, winning unexpected luminescence … His painting world talks directly with his engraving work, (His teacher in painting at the School of Fine Arts was Umvertos Argyros). Both paintings and engravings are washed by the Mediterranean light, the light blue of the ether and the roar of the sea, and reveal his personal alphabet. An iconography that provokes the dream of the poetic contemplation of the real. ”
Takis Mavrotas
Source: kathimerini.gr