I am an artist who wishes to embrace the unknowable.

This led me to the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and landed at Zen Buddhist center in US, where I lived for the several years. Zen became my approach to life, and the path and quest became entwined in and embodied in my art.

Frequent motifs in my paintings are animated toys, at once suspended between life and non-life. In search of answers, they plunge into forgetful dreams, or stand out in their highly ornate clothes on unexpectedly ornate backgrounds, captured at the moments of their insights or revelations. Their world is a mosaic made of artificial jewels on magnificent landscapes, sparkling with the glow of starlight and the twilight of dusk.

My works are theatrical masks of the soul, and are reflective of my own journey through life and through art.

Contact: nerakelio@yahoo.com