New Quince Portraits – Traditional Panel Painting in a Contemporary Form
With my new quince portraits, I continue the tradition of classical panel painting while bringing it into the present. The paintings are created on carefully prepared panels with a fine marble ground and are built up in numerous layers using casein-based tempera paints—a painting technique whose origins date back to early European painting.
The combination of the marble ground and casein-based tempera allows for an extraordinary delicacy in the glazes, a velvety play of light, and great precision in the depiction. The quince is not understood here as a mere still life, but as an individual portrait: marked by maturity, transience, and the traces of time.
Traditional materials and artisanal techniques meet a contemporary perspective. The result is a series of paintings that bridge the gap between realistic illusion and painterly presence—quiet studies exploring a new conception of beauty, aging, and the dignity of the unassuming.