The series of paintings and drawings “Images of the Greek Landscape”, have come about from a recent trip to Limnos , it is the land from which I immigrated as an eight year old.  

The charcoal drawings were done on location and the paintings developed on my return to Melbourne .  

These images are from different view points of a town called Kondias which sits between rocky hills as do many towns in Greece .  

It is a landscape with primordial presence, which until recent times, had not been defaced with modern construction.  

The manner in which I interpret what I see into images has developed over the years and refers to aspects of the modern European tradition.  

In the multitude of visual activity of the landscape I look for rhythms that connect houses,trees and rock, as the eye travels from the foreground into the distant space. These specific forms are generalized into shapes in order to create a structure that gives unity to all the parts.  

In a small way these pictures are my personal homage to the land of my ancestors and in the Greek spirit of joyful witness to the presence of light, form and space.