P.O.I., 2021

Thaddeus Moustrides  

Attracted by Italy after a life in the grey English skies, a few years ago he moved to a farmhouse in the Romagna Apennines, surrounded by a wonderful garden surrounded by olive trees. He has finally found the space in which to marry his creativity with wood, where he can realise the dream of expression he had been nurturing for a long time. Where to become an artist.

He says of himself: ".. I feel my essence in the creative process, looking for harmonies and disharmonies, moments in which my artistic vision meets the desire for wood, summoning different presences, breaths, thoughts, in a myriad of emotions. Creating gives me a sense of calm, fulfilment, a connection between myself and nature: in fact my work reflects the strong link between emotions and nature .. "

Ettore says of him .. "He has a Celtic soul that carries him inside the fibres of the wood. He chooses with great care the pieces of the tree that will become his words. Not for the dimensional characteristics and for the type of essence, but for the symbiosis it can create, for the ability of that wood to put itself at the service of its creative drive and at the same time to silently shout its own dàimon so that Thaddeus can finally free it. . When he works on his vegetable bodies he is totally absorbed, they could steal his shoes and he would not notice it. Dipped to the tips of your hair in horrific hardcore riffs. And to say that he is such a polite and kind being .. "