Oil on canvas·76 × 102 cm
Irida
One of my earliest completed works. Irida emerged from a period of intense study — learning to see light not as brightness but as weight, as presence.
The Journey Begins
First Steps
Every artist has a beginning. These works represent the early steps of my journey — the first attempts to translate feeling into form, to find a visual language that was truly my own.
Oil on canvas·Variable
Early Work
An early exploration of figure and ground. The relationship between subject and space was something I was only beginning to understand — this canvas holds that uncertainty, and I find it honest.
Oil on canvas·100 × 150 cm
Paired Figure
Two forms in dialogue. This larger work marked a shift — I began to think about painting as conversation, about what happens in the space between things.
Oil on canvas·Variable
Studio Detail
A fragment. Sometimes the most interesting part of a painting is the corner no one was meant to notice — the place where the hand moved freely, without intention.
Learning to see
The first steps are always the hardest to talk about. There is so much uncertainty in early work — so much reaching toward something you cannot yet name. But looking back, I see that uncertainty as a kind of freedom. I had not yet learned what I was not supposed to do.
These paintings are not perfect. But they are honest. And honesty, I have come to believe, is the only thing that makes a painting worth looking at.
— Melios Koniotis