About Ifigenia

STATEMENT

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I know we’re not supposed to touch a painting, but this is exactly what I aim for...

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I want the viewers to yearn to feel the rough, edgy surface of my paintings with their fingertips, to connect with them not only through the sense of sight, but through the sense of touch too.

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And it is exactly the sense of touch –literally and metaphorically- that intrigues and inspires me.

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...the touch of time in old, weathered doors and walls, where layers of paint peel away revealing older paint underneath, in vintage objects with decaying finishes and rough textures, in the rusty surface of old ships abandoned in shipyards…

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...or when the touch of sea imparts a smooth round shape to edgy broken pieces of glass and patina to discarded pieces of metal...

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All of these are old, imperfect, but yet beautiful and intriguing...

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My goal is to evoke an emotional and thought-provoking response in the viewers of my art, making them see the “beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete” as the Japanese philosophy of Wabi Sabi so wisely states.

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Signature painting technique

In my painting practice I bring together a range of materials across the canvas, such as beach found rusty objects, crackle paste, acrylic paint, beach sand, paper and I use a combination of layering, distressing and blending techniques to build a fairly rough, deconstructed and multifaceted surface.