Following Old Masters
Portfolio in chiaroscuro - an oil painting technique - which is very similar to low key photography and an
hommage to my favorite old masters, especially the Spanish and Italian painters from the Renaissaince and Golden Age, whom I wanted to honor: especially El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo and the female painter Artemisia Gentileschi. The symbolist Julio Romero de Torres, who is known for his portraits of beautiful Andalusian women, holds a special place in my heart. Some of these portraits are dedicated to the Victorian avant-garde, called The Pre-Raphaelites, and their
stunning female models. I was hugely inspired by Dante Gabriel Rosetti, John William Waterhouse and Frank Cadogan Cowper, brightened by Tennyson’s poetry… and the soul of the rose went into my blood.
