In a dramatically changing world there are still some constants, which accompany and help us survive in difficult times – love, art, beauty and sense of humour.
My latest "Secrets Breed Secrets" project on Renaissance Masters was created during COVID-19 lockdowns in London. In this series - my thoughts and reflections on the research which were made during the Covid era on Old Masters paintings.
I started this series during the first lockdown in London and continue to crate new works for it using self-portraits in gasmasks "Masquerade Spring/Summer 2020".
Throughout my life, Old Masters paintings came to have a big influence on me and I developed contextual ideas in my stage photographic series by encoding the images with symbolic meanings through the use of objects and colours. A symbol is a form in the philosophical sense. “The unique nature of a symbol is that it gives access to deeper layers of reality which are otherwise inaccessible” (Tillich, 1964, p.54).
“Secrets Breed Secret on Francisco José de Goya”
“Secrets Breed Secrets series on Botticelli and Godward”
“Secrets Breed Secrets on Raphael”
