Peripheral ARTeries
Georg Oskar
Giannakoudakis (Iceland) An artist’s statement
My name is Georg Oskar Giannakoudakis, I am an artist with my main focus on painting. Graduated from Akureyri School of Visual Arts in 2009. The progress of painting I think has a big role in why I choose to paint. For me it is physical act but at the same time a total meditation, and I like to be in that stage of contrast. Like many others I do talk about my life and I document it, I look at each piece as a page of a visual diary. My subject is usually very common things which we don’t notice at all, and they can be forgotten very easily but I want to remember those little things so the best way to do that for me is to paint it and use life as an idea to work with. Even if you live in a small town of 18 thousand people like my self, you can get so much influence and inspiration of daily life if you notice those little things around you, and if you have a way to progress it in to something visually, poem and so on I think that gives it a deeper meaning and your work will find it ways to developed by it self and comes as good as it gets in most pure way.
Georg Oskar Giannakoudakis
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