Moby Dick 80x70cm

 

oil on wood panel

Moby Dick ... He embodies the character of the relentless sea so well described in the verses 10-18 of Lord Byron's "The sea" ...

"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,—roll!
 Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
 Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control
 Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain
 The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
 A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
 When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,
 He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
 Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown."

[Lord Byron]

from the endless sky 90x60cm

  Golden is the color of my bright shining love fueling the red colors of my passion. I can fly into the endless sky yet choose your medium to roam in, in order to bring through gold and red the black and white of life into life worth living... I can fly but it is a burden to be unlike you... as you are the divine goal of the adition of my dreams. Love is as always the sweetest cut of any that make you bleed.

[I.R.S.]

madama 40x40cm

"And so I'm marrying in the Japanese style,
Tied for nine hundred
And ninety-nine years,
Free, though, to annul the marriage monthly."
[Pinkerton Act I, PUCCINI's MADAMA BUTTERFLY]

the goldfish's kiss 90x70cm

... farewell to Hamburg..., I am about to move back Home, back to Greece. Back to stay!

I am neither happy, nor sad;

I am both happy, and sad;

I do not know, really

and

another thing I do not know is how exactly the way I feel affects my paintings and effects on them...

This is the last painting I am painting here, in Hamburg. Here where I actually started this blog 1.5 years ago!!

My next post will be sent into the ether from further south.

... farewell to Hamburg...[A.R.]

marine boy 50x60cm

 

Imagination is a powerful thing, I often watch my little-one preparing to go to sleep and choosing one of his toys, a different one every evening, to keep him company. I guess he is sculpting his dreams that way; when he wakes in the morning he is still holding the toy and if not the first thing he does, still half asleep, is to retrieve it from the blankets.

Yesterday he went to sleep with a little whale on his pillow ... this is a capture thereof.[A.R.]

Marine girl 50x60cm

Sometimes Surrealism is needed in life, dreaming of things we like or live in our own world, helps you escape reality and all these stressful rules......sometimes taking a brake and live like a kid makes you feel alive [A.R.]

dawn of time 50x60cm

Some of the mammals that evolved themselves out of the water, obviously, didn't like the land enough and tried to return to the wet embrace of the seas. They actually succeeded and remained there till today almost unchanged... they are the majestic giants of the oceans singing to us about the dawn of time...[A.R.]

Athena Ergane weaver 70x60cm

Εργάνη Αθηνά υφάντρα, η θεά της σοφίας, της πολεμικής τέχνης, της αρχιτεκτονικής, των τεχνιτών και της χειροτεχνίας (εξ ου και το Εργάνη). Προστάτιδα της Αθήνας. Μυθολογικά θέματα απεικονίζονται συνήθως με ρομαντικό ρεαλισμό, εδώ προσπάθησα μία διαφορετική προσέγγιση με αφηρημένο ρεαλισμό.[Α.Ρ.]

Athena Ergane weaver, Goddess of Wisdom, Warfare, Divine Intelligence, Architecture, and Crafts (Ergane). Patron Goddess of Athens. Mythology is usually depicted with romantic realism, here I tried a different approach; abstact realism.[A.R.]

citrus from heaven 60x50cm

Τα εσπεριδοειδή είναι χαμηλά δένδρα, που τα φύλλα τους δεν πέφτουν (αειθαλή) και ευδοκιμούν στις τροπικές ή ημιτροπικές και στις εύκρατες χώρες (Ελλάδα). Τα φρούτα τους ανταγωνίζονται για το ποιο αποτυπώνει καλύτερα το χρυσό του φωτός, ποιο εκπροσωπεί καλύτερα το θεό Ήλιο, το μεγάλο Απόλλωνα τον θεό του κάλλους. Τα χρυσό-χρωμα αυτά φρούτα είναι η υλοποίηση του φωτός και της τέχνης (του κάλλους) που μόνο διά αυτού αποκτά υπόσταση. [Ι.Ρ.Σ.]

Citruses are low trees, whose leaves do not fall (evergreen) and thrive in tropical or sub-tropic and temperate countries (Greece). Their fruits are competing, which one reflects better the golden light, which one represents better  the sun-god, the great Apollo the god of beauty. These golden-colored fruits are the realization of light and art (beauty). Art comes into being through that light. [I.R.S.]

mama in toy-land 40x40cm

when I close my eyes I see toys everywhere, toys in the sky with the stars, toys in the water, toys on the ground, toys swirling around me... never getting old childhood is always a part of you, you just have to free it!?! [A.R.]

lady night 4x 60x30cm

 

Yesterday I dreamed of the night. She was a lady in white. The dream though kept repeating and changing with the phases of the moon as if phases of mood. The succession of my dreams shows my inner belief that the night is all but black and white. [A.R.]

lady night part I 60x30cm

this painting is the first of a series of four,

in different colors, that I intend to paint.

Yesterday, I dreamed of the night, as a lady in ... white... [A.R.]

circus tent 50x70cm

Especially made for my boys' room! [A.R.]

whales 30x60cm

Majestic, large, old and peaceful [I.R.S.]