When I was first involved in Art, more than forty years ago, I was a general surgeon. Considering the load of work in a London hospital at the time, it was quite natural to look for a passage that would lead to some relief from the daily strain and an escape from the patients problems. In selecting the long avenue of Art I was aware of the teachings of Hippocrates that  «O vios vrahis i de techni macra» [Life is short but the Art is long],  but did not feel that I was trespassing on foreign ground. 

At an early stage I realized that anatomy and many surgical tools are common both to medicine and metalcraft, after all surgery itself is also an art. In the evolution of my "carreer" in art one decade was spent in painting, sculpture, woodcarving and batik. Every minute of it was well consumed. However, following my apprenticeship in coppercraft, gold and silversmithing I was becoming uneasy, dissatisfied and restless until the charm of enamel colour came to my rescue.

From the very beginning my love in this medium for fine art was accompanied by zeal, enthusiasm and an almost religious devotion that resulted in an astonishing and sustained creative invention. In searching for colour in a dark epoch of Enamel History I suddenly realized that, although the technique of enameling may have been invented independently in widely separated regions the history of The Earliest Cloisonne Enamels starts from Cyprus. Indeed how proud we must be of our cultural heritage, having the oldest Enamels that exist to-day in the whole world! They are six gold rings with cloisonne enamel, discovered in a Mycenaean tomb at Kouklia, Cyprus, and dated the 13th century B.C.

My work in Enameling is an endeavour to bring about a revival of an ancient Cyprus craft, at its own birthplace, and a reminder that an elegant enamel is a piece of art, beautiful, fascinating and representing what is best in value and skilled craftsmanship.