Oil on canvas / Size: 70x100cm (27,5’’x39’’)  
Loved the theme and perspective on this one. It has an erotic feeling and was a pleasure to paint. 

Tootsies

Oil on canvas | Size: 50x100cm | 19,5”x39,5” - created 2019

A little boy speaking to his inner selves in parallel universes...
Phones are a blessing and a curse, they allow us to communicate but in the same time are isolating us from the rest of the world. This work was inspired by a picture I took of my grandson, as all the kids today are completely hypnotized by their phones instead of enjoying life and their surroundings.

Esoterica

Oil on Wood / Size: 70x95cm (27,5"x 37,4") - created 2020

A double portrait of my stepson which can be seen and hanged either side. Namaste is the common greeting in yoga. It is a gesture to send a message of peaceful spirituality to the universe in the hopes of receiving a positive message back. My original title was “Gratitude and Happiness”. “Namaste” is shorter and its definition is even sharper when I think of it, since the term is broad and encompasses all of these facets. To me, a portrait has to go beyond the obvious by catching the spirit and essence of the subject. 
I also find that The composition of the inverted double portrait gives the painting a balance that suits it both aesthetically and metaphysically.

Namaste

Oil on canvas / Size: 90x110cm (35,5"x 43,3") - Created in 2021

This was truly fun to do and I think it shows. I wanted to create something that could bring a sense of joy in these days of lockdown and confinement. The dancing girl is based on my granddaughter making a fool of herself :)

Dance Baby Dance!

Oil on canvas / Size: 70x100cm (27,5"x 39") - Created 2020 
I guess we all have a good and a bad side, conflictual feelings that sometimes tears us apart, trying to balance ourselves on a thin line that separates each side. Life is somehow a mixture of those extreme contradictions, that we all keep deep inside ourselves. Could each side exist without it’s opposite?

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Michel Devanakis

Tootsies

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Namaste

Dance Baby Dance!

good and Evil staring at each other

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