Whenever my research allows me to, I enjoy painting and sketching gods, heroes and people from the Classical World, inspired primarily by their sculptures.

For me, art is not so dissimilar from my research, as I engage with figural representations as source material, trying to capture a sense of what it would have been like to see these people in the flesh, to connect with them as complex personalities and to be inspired by them. Often, searching for inspiration and drawing the features of ancient sculptures leads me to research about these original works of art.

Through my artwork, I also subtly challenge the presumptions of my frame of mind as a researcher. For I seek to bring sculptures that may ordinarily be seen as distant, removed from our reality and the objects of historical enquiry closer to us in the modern day, reminding us that, while they were different from us in many ways, they still have the capacity to eloquently guide and shape us in understanding the human condition.

In the process, I collapse the difference between viewer and object to temporarily leave only admiration for what is beautiful and good (kalos kai agathos) in Classical culture, in its many different shades.

Do not hesitate to contact me, if you would like to buy a reproduction of any of my paintings/drawings.

Left: The Graeco-Egyptian goddess Isis, holding a snake and flanked by her young son, Harpokrates, after the fresco in the Ekklesiasterion of the Iseum at Pompeii.

Right: Homer, after his celebrated portrait Roman period bust from Baiae, Italy, British Museum 1805,0703.85.

Left: Athena Parthenos, wearing her helmet and aegis with Medusa’s head. After the famous cult statue in the Parthenon temple on the Athenian Acropolis.

Right: Plato, the head modelled after the bust found in the Largo Argentina, Rome, which is thought to be a copy of the statue by the sculptor Silanion (made c. 370 BCE) for the Academy of Athens, the body after Sophocles of the Lateran type.