Rainy landscape 1977

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas made this dream of a painting called "Rainy Landscape" with thin paint, maybe oil or acrylic washes, and a very light touch. I can imagine him, brush in hand, letting the paint almost drip and pool, coaxing the image out of a watery haze. It feels like a memory of a place, not a depiction. He's not trying to copy what he sees, but to capture something felt. Look at how the grey seeps into the white, creating a kind of blurry veil. Those vertical marks—are they rain, or trees, or just the gesture of the hand moving down the canvas? It makes me think about Agnes Martin’s paintings and the way she used grids to evoke a sense of quiet contemplation. There's a similar atmosphere here, a kind of meditative space created through simple, repetitive marks. It's like he's inviting us to step into the rain with him, to feel the dampness and the stillness of the landscape.