ABOUT ME
Barcelona based painter Nikolaos Schizas creates dynamic abstract acrylic paintings that radiate with vibrant splashes of color, and communicate a strong sense of movement and fluidity. Nikos is an abstract artist inspired by a drive to explore unconscious feelings and repressed emotions.
Mixing acrylics, spray paint and resin, Schizas employs a range of methods, from spraying, pouring and dripping paint directly onto the canvas, to using a mixture of traditional brushes and untraditional tools, such as spatulas, to make sweeping, gestural marks, creating amazing acrylic paitings full of live. A self-taught painter as an abastract artist, he expresses through his work a natural and intuitive passion for the materiality of paint, and an instinctual appreciation for emotionally charged color relationships. His fresh and vibrant aesthetic position occupies a space between Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and Pop, and seems to emanate from a dreamlike and mysterious realm.
Artist Statement
“My subject is feelings that are coming from the unconsciousness, in particular deep fears and repressed emotions. All of these negative emotions we have hidden somewhere inside of us, for example if we feel guilty, embarrassed, shame or anger. When we are able to express these emotions the effect of them softens. My brushes and the concept that I create with my art is this softened emotion that arises from the unconsciousness.
Within my work, you will see all of these emotions reflected. Anger, shame, relief, redemption, hate and jealousy amongst others. No specific color represents any emotion, rather it is a fluid expression as is the case with how we deal with such emotions, for example anger can be expressed through screaming which in turn provides relief.
I want to inspire people to feel and express their emotions more and more. I was not doing this for many years, but I consider myself lucky now to express them through my art.”