Based in Cyprus, Andreas Pieris is a Cypriot contemporary artist and brand consultant known for his mixed-media paintings.
In the work of Andreas Pieris, the very action of painting is fundamental, it is the moment when physical impulses and visual imagination come together on the canvas. What matters most is the creative act itself.
His artistic investigation is rich, abstract paintings by fusing unconventional industrial materials as vehicles for formal exploration and provoked coincedence.
His process of creation is both a performative act, and a personal spiritual process.
This analysis, have led him to transform the act of drawing into a process of meditation, a conversation between the medium and the artist. This connection transforms the visual value of his artistic project into both a performance act and a personal ritual that serves to answer his inner questions.
"My goal is to let the materials do something and that something I respond to and try to make into something that we all see and read as a painting in which the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps and participate in the creative act using his own imagination."
My inspiration comes from a need to find a new form of expression, an original language to paint. I’m extremely physical with the work, and each painting has layer upon layer of marks, painted out color and reworked imagery.
I believe that creation and destruction are complementary and interconnected acts, with one resulting from the other. The urge to create and destruct is, therefore, understood as a substantial human need, and it is representative everywhere in my paintings.
What I like about Art is that there’s never a need to apologize for not being good enough (yet). You’re always going to be the best at being you.
