PERSEPHONE’S BANQUET: Persephone & Friends
PERSEPHONE'S BANQUET: Persephone & Friends
Price: SOLD
Art Medium: Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
Size: 61 cm x 61 cm
Year: 2021
PERSEPHONE’S BANQUET : Persephone & Friends
Synonymous with mystery
Persephone was abducted by Hades and tricked into eating the pomegranate seeds
At the tavern she sits alone. I tried to find her a companion at the table (Ithaka’s Penelope nearly made it) , but the pomegranates stole the show. Instead,
she made her own friends; the people sitting at the neighboring tables.
This is one of 4 paintings I completed in 2021 as part of my RANDEVOUZ AT THE TAVERN Series. They explore the metaphor of the tavern as a magical meeting
place. Similar to the popular invitation: “who from the world stage would you invite to dinner?” through art I take liberty as a painter and storyteller to create space
for characters from Greece’s cultural tapestry to come together for the first time, bridging dimensions of folklore, history and mythology.
There is an art to being a good host, bringing friends together who sometimes are strangers with only one person in common. Such meetings create new
relationships and opportunities for connection. The art viewer is an additional guest, at each table of the ‘Rendezvous at the Tavern’.
You are invited into the conversation, free to respond, reflect and interpret perhaps pass judgment on what you see.
The subjects of these paintings are given the opportunity to retell their stories in new ways. These archetypes are both universal and Hellenic, belong to the
diasporic collective and are part of my personal inner world.
Artistically, I noticed a gradual evolution from an iconic and abstract figurative language to more realistic rendering of the human figure. So too the series and its
subject matter is sure to continue and evolve as it has stylistically.
$568,507.00