Kozak Family Portrait - Eyes, 2009 

I had been doing a lot of work with driftwood.

One particular plank that I had found had inspired me to start a ‘Family Tree’ - paintings of the eyes of members of my bloodline. It was standing in my studio when the client visited one day, and subsequently commissioned me to paint his family’s eyes on a piece of driftwood that he had. 

I worked from close-up photographs of the eyes of the four individuals.

Oil on driftwood,  Probably about 150 x 40 cm.

The painting is in Cyprus.