From 2000 on expanded my visual alphabet to include a house of cards, a labyrinth, a dove and an eagle. From 2005 to 2007 I did series of 8 large, elaborate (160 x 160cm, please see catalogue number one) graphite drawings on very smooth canvas. I have never particularly liked the fragility of paper, and I have always felt that the glass covering such pieces distances the viewer from the work. Drawing on this marvelous canvas allowed me to simply stretch these drawings, rendering them more solid. They thus become less fragile and less distant.
In recent years I have been working on paintings of planets, a continuation of my concerns about landscape and being somewhere. I have also completed a series of twenty small still lives in a nod to classical Spanish still life painting (bodegones), which I love.
“Ariel Landscape Over Labyrinth”
2007 160x160cm oil on canvas
“Variation on Bellini’s Agony in the Garden”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas“Braille Hypnos Butterfly”
2007 96.5×96.5cm oil on canvas
“Bellini Sun”
2012 160x160cm oil / acrylic on canvas
“Bellini Forever”
2012 160x160cm oil / acrylic on canvas “Bellini Earth”
2012 160x160cm oil / acrylic on canvas“Bellini Airplane”
2012 160x160cm oil / acrylic on canvas“Autumn”
2011 160x160cm oil on canvas
“My mother in Mexico in 1946” (detail of Autobiography)
2012 color crayon/oil on canvas“My father in New York in 1950” (detail of Autobiography)
2012 color crayon/oil on canvas “Mouth with plants” (detail of Autobiography)
2012 color crayon/oil on canvas “I as a child in Viennas” (detail of Autobiography)
2012 color crayon/oil on canvas“Autobiography”
2012 1.60m x 1m color crayon/oil on canvas“Alcudia Pollensa”
2013 160cm x 160cm oil on canvas Bahia“Variation on Mantegna’s Christ in the Garden of Gethsamane”
2003 110x140cm acrylic on canvas“Cards and Shells”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Cards, Branch and Dove ”
2008 130x130cm oil on canvas“Camera”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas “Butterfly”
2005 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Butterfly Effect”
2006 160x160cm pencil on canvas“Butterflies”
2005 160x160cm acrylic on canvas“Brush”
2011 40x40cm oil on canvas“Broken Glasses”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas“Bread”
2011 40x40cm oil on canvas “Bread”
2011 40x40cm oil on canvas “Bread and Garlic”
2011 40x40cm oil on canvas
“Floating Shoes Hypnos”
2007 97x97cm oil on canvas
“My Father”
2005 100x100cm pencil on canvas
“Eye Dog Leaper”
2006 160×160 pencil on canvas
“Et In Arcadia Ego”
2011 40x40cm oil on canvas
“Eagle Labyrinth Study ”
2007 97x97cm oil on canvas
“Invitation au Voyage”
2005 158x320cm acrylic on canvas
“Dog”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas
“Dog With Long Shadow”
2008 130x130cm oil on canvas“Diver II”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas“Diver”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas“Variation on Mantegna’s Crucificion”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Variation on Titian’s Country Banquet ”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas Private Collection“Leap of Faith”
2009 160x160cm oil on canvas“L’Amour Fou II”
2007 160x160cm oil on canvas “L’Amour Fou”
2007 160x160cm oil on canvas “Labyrinth”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas
“Variation on Patinir’s Saint Jerome”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas“Invitation au Voyage”
2006 160x160cm pencil on canvas“Icarus in Kuweit”
2006 160x160cm pencil on canvas“Iberian Eagle over Labyrinth ”
2007 160x160cm oil on canvas
“Variation on Breughel’s The Hunter”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Hand”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas“Fragile House”
2006 160x160cm pencill on canvas
“Floating Shoes in Landscape”
2007 153x156cm oil on canvas
“Palma Church project-Peace on Earth I (Dove)”
2011 400x520cm oil on canvas
“Palma Church Project – installation view”
2011
“Palma Church Project – installation view”
2011
“Palma Church Project Two”
2011 400x520cm (in studio) oil on canvas “Palma Church Project One”
2011 400x520cm (in studio) oil / acrylic on canvas
“Palma Church Project One”
2011 400x520cm (in studio) oil / acrylic on canvas
“Variation on Ingres’s Oedipus and the Sphinx”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“My Mother and I” & detail
2008 160x160cm oil on canvas
“My Mother”
2005 100x100cm pencil on canvas“Mazatlan”
2013 160cm x 160cm acrylic on canvas “Marathon Runner Eagle Sunglasses ”
2007 96x97cm oil on canvas“Leap ”
2008 130x130cm oil on canvas “Variation on Patinir’s Saint Jerome”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Variation on Bellini’s The Sacred Allegory”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
solo show ESAD Galerie, Amiens
2009
“Variation on Breughel’s The Return of the Herd”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Variation on Bellini’s Resurection of Christ”
2004 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Reaching Out”
2008 160x160cm oil on canvas“Pouring Water”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas“Pomegranates”
2011 40x40cm oil on canvas“Variation on Ruben’s Philemon and Baucis”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Paros Island”
2013 160cm x 160cm oil on canvas
“Palma Church project-Peace on Earth II (Hand)”
2011 400x520cm oil on canvas
“Winter”
2011 160x160cm oil / acrylic on canvas
“Variation on Ruben’s The Watering Place”
2003 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Water Glass in Landscape”
2007 160x160cm oil on canvas“Villa Dolores” & detail
2009 160x160cm computer print out on canvas
“Two Hands”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas“Variation on Giorgione’s The Philosophers”
2004 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Summer”
2011 160x160cm oil on canvas“Variation on Bellini’s St. Francis in Ecstasy”
2004 160x160cm acrylic on canvas
“Stay With Me II”
2006 160x160cm pencil on canvas
“Stay With Me I”
2006 160x160cm pencil on canvas
“Spring”
2011 160x160cm oil on canvas“Small Bang”
2009 160x160cm oil on canvas“Shoes”
2005 99x100cm pencil on canvas
rafaelmahdavi.wordpress.com 