I invited the gifted painter Ivi Gabrielides – living for years in a beautiful apartment (that is also her personal gallery of art) of an old beautiful house on Póros Island – to impart us her thoughts about painting and allowing us to show some of her paintings. A charming and elegant artist, she is a person of few words rather letting her soul inhabit her oeuvres. Visiting her art gallery-home and meeting her was one of my highlights of my island stay. (Peter Sragher)
Being – ephemeral existence in this reality.
A body of light, water and matter, thoughts, feelings, emotions. All of them are transient facts.
How, when to express all this?
There are periods intersected by attraction for light, others attracted by the vision of the mineral, vegetable, animal and human aspects of the world.
The vision is altered by an emotion, an expectation, a memory, a physical urgency, a metaphysical aspiration, an aquatic, rocky, hairy, luminous, micro-macroscopic reality,
I paint by downloading what I feel to be in that moment.
* All the photos of the the paintings were offered to us by Ivi Gabrielides except Harmony II and Treshold that were taken by Peter Sragher at her home on Póros Island in order to give a tiny image of the gallery-home of the artist. The technique ist mixed, oil on wood.
