GENJI

My paintings examine identity as a structure shaped by faith and inheritance. Working primarily in oil, with occasional charcoal studies, I draw from the visual language of Baroque tenebrism and classical realism to construct spaces where light operates as both revelation and scrutiny.

The work originates in personal memory — fragments of upbringing, ritual, and interior belief systems that continue to inform perception. I am interested in how faith persists beyond doctrine: as posture, restraint, discipline, and silence. Rather than depicting narrative, I stage psychological conditions. The figure becomes a site where inherited tradition and individual agency remain unresolved.

Chiaroscuro functions as a conceptual device rather than a stylistic quotation. Darkness in my work carries density and weight; illumination isolates and exposes. The realism is deliberate — a stabilising structure that allows emotional tension to remain contained, never theatrical.

I seek to create paintings that move the viewer through recognition rather than spectacle. The work invites a sustained encounter with the quiet gravity of belief, memory, and self-examination.