PIERRE DIAMANTOPOULO

Amphora Dreams I The Pomegranate Tree   ©

Oil on canvas

120 cm high x 150 cm wide

Amphora Dreams l, ll, and lll is a triptych - the images are connected by the walls of a Persian garden, and connected in theme by three trees.

The figures have stepped out of a frieze around a Grecian urn and inhabit the unfamiliar grounds of this expanded Persian miniature paradise.

Amphora Dreams II The Kumquat Tree   ©

Oil on canvas

120 cm high x 150 cm wide

Amphora Dreams III The Almond Tree   ©

Oil on canvas

120 cm high x 150 cm wide

Firehorse   ©

Oil on canvas

120 cm high x 150 cm wide

War horse and a dog of war unleashed - seeing Athens crumble in the 21st century provoked this image.

Pandemonium   ©

Oil and oil pastel on fine paper

61 cm high x 91 cm wide

A Greco-Roman Bacchanalia, or a scene in Pandemonium – the city of darkness in John Milton’s epic poem 'Paradise Lost'.

The image is a chaotic parade of circus acts and acts of war.

Whacko-Graeco   ©

Oil and oil pastel on fine paper

40 cm high x 40 cm wide

Sgraffito figures perhaps from the layers of history.  A vulnerable urn and yet another a civilisation are about to be brutalised.

Allowing the background to dominate is an important part of this image.