Jim Gigurtsis was born in Crete, Greece and moved to England as a young adult. He moved to Seminole, Pinellas County in 2016. His work is held in private and public collections internationally.
He paints in oil, working without knowing the outcome in advance. He deconstructs and distorts the image until it hits him before he has a
chance to think about what he is looking at. Close up, the paint is unresolved: impasto, broad gesture, multiple layers. Step back, and a
figure emerges, only to dissolve again.
Some of his portraits take the form of triptychs: three studies of the same person, each panel autonomous, no single truth. His larger
figurative works confront migration, war, and persecution through sacred imagery, or examine perception and bias, what others decide you are.
His work has shown at exhibitions across the USA and Europe. Commissions welcome.
