Small is Beautiful

I have a small painting in the group show "Small is Beautiful" at Flowers East gallery in London.

Here are the details:

Small is Beautiful XXVI
2 December 2008 - 3 January 2009
Private view: Saturday 29 November 2 - 4 pm
Flowers East: www.flowerseast.com

View from the studio

The studio I worked in while living in the States didn’t have any windows. It was a big room with glass on the roof. When you looked up all you could see was the sky and some tree branches. My studio in London was on the third floor of a building on Charing Cross road. It had one window looking down onto a narrow yet busy street. My studio now is an old house in downtown Limassol. All of its windows look out onto a hedge that surrounds and almost hides the entire house. When I look out any of the windows all I see is green. I'm literally cut off from the neighborhood.

I actually requested that the hedge not be trimmed. I like hiding behind it while I’m working. I feel as if I’m living the myth of the lonely artist, isolated in the studio, frantically painting away. It’s not really like that of course. I mean, I like having my peace and quiet while I’m working, but can anything really happen in complete isolation? Doesn’t everything exist in a context? Don’t things – people, thoughts, objects, whatever - need to interconnect? One of my teachers used to say that “that’s what it’s all about” – making connections, being able to relate things, even in strange ways.

She never specified what “it” was…maybe art, maybe life…who knows. But I agree with her.

(Extract from Backstage, a limited edition text-based artist's multiple that accompanied my exhibition at Gloria Gallery in February 2008. I still have a few copies left. If anyone would like one, let me know. The booklets are in Greek and English, signed and dated.)

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