- Plenty is acrylic and it is fast. Fat clouds rolling across a deep blue sea, yellow-green and luminous, almost too joyful to contain themselves. I painted it the way summer feels in Greece — not gently, not quietly, but all at once. The sky full, the sea flat and receiving, the light so generous it borders on excess. There is nothing threatened in this painting. Nothing withheld. It is simply what abundance looks like when you stop being afraid of it.
Materials: Acrylic
Medium: Paper
Dimensions: 21x 15 cm
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2. Red on Blue. My work moves between abstraction and the observed world. Sometimes I paint the sea directly — its fractures, its rhythms, its quiet violence. Other times I place something small and ordinary against that same blue ground: a cluster of grapes, a leaning tree, a wound of red. The subject changes, but the atmosphere remains. I am always painting the same place.
Materials: Gouache
Medium: Paper
Dimensions: 15 x 21 cm
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3. Rose in gray. It blooms with stubborn color even as its surroundings turn to shadow.
I am a painter who paints because I must. While others build careers, chase validation, or apologize for their dreams, I return each day to the quiet studio and the stubborn act of making. Rejection is a routine — galleries that never reply, friends who change the subject, family who ask when I will “finally do something real.” I have grown used to the silence that follows when I say I only want to paint.
My paintings are not born from confidence or certainty. They emerge from persistence in the face of constant disappointment, from the lonely hours when no one believes this is enough. Each brushstroke carries the weight of doubt and the small, stubborn defiance of continuing anyway. In a world that measures worth by recognition and reward, I offer these quiet works as proof that some of us keep painting not because we are celebrated, but because we cannot stop.
This is an honest life: lonely, doubted, often ashamed — and still devoted to the only thing that feels right.
Watercolor on paper
21 x 15 cm
April 2026
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4. Silent Pendulum. A tightly closed purple bud hangs heavily from a curved stem against a black background. The downward arc and dark, furled petals suggest quiet sorrow and the weight of something that may never fully bloom. This piece explores the fragile moment between anticipation and resignation.
Pencils on paper
21 x 15 cm
2026
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5. Violet Horizon. This watercolor was born to cradle the weary heart—lavender mist softening into endless turquoise like a slow exhale at dawn. Its quiet horizons invite surrender: no demands, only space to rest, to let worries dissolve in soft color, restoring a fragile, luminous peace within.
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 15 x 21 cm
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6. What Survives is pencil and it is slow. An ancient tree, stripped of leaves, its bark carrying every scar and knot and year it has survived. I drew it because I needed to understand something that had been alive longer than I have. That kind of attention — the kind that follows every twist of bark, every place where the wood has healed around an old wound — is a different kind of knowing than painting. It is quieter. More intimate. You have to stay.
Materials: Pencil
Medium: Paper
Dimensions: 15 x 21 cm
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7. Night Bloom. This work utilizes the opaque density of gouache to investigate the architecture of a bloom as it recedes into a total void. Unlike traditional watercolor, the structural weight of the gouache allows for a ‘carving’ of light from the darkness. By focusing on the radial symmetry of the specimen, I explore the chromatic tension between icy, cerulean petals and the concentrated heat of the stamen—a study of contained energy within an absolute, non-reflective space.
Gouache on paper
15 x 21 cm
2026
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8. A Brief Bloom. The moment the bloom surrendered to gravity, letting its form dissolve into the air.
watercolor on paper
15 x 21 cm
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9. Purple Reverie
watercolor on paper
18 x 14 cm
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10. Study on a Bird
Pencils on paper
21 x 15 cm
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11. Study on a blue bird
Pencil and watercolor on paper
27 x 18 cm
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12. Hummingbird
27 x 18 cm
watercolor and pencil on paper
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