George Pefanis (b. 1993, Athens) is a Greek painter whose work investigates the threshold between perception, time, and image formation. Working primarily at large scale, he constructs paintings from hundreds of thousands of hand-painted dots, treating repetition not as ornament but as a durational and cognitive system — a way of translating sustained attention into material form.

With a background in graphic design and visual communication, Pefanis operates where digital logics intersect with embodied labour. His paintings echo the structures of pixels, scans, and visual noise, yet remain insistently analogue: each mark a decision, each surface an accumulation of time, presence, and micro-variation.

His practice is driven by questions of how images emerge, dissolve, and reorganise through prolonged looking. From a distance, the works register as fields of stillness or vibration; up close, they reveal chromatic instability, perceptual interference, and the evidence of the hand. The paintings function as slow visual experiments, testing what the eye trusts, what it invents, and what it overlooks.

Underlying the work is a commitment to painting as a temporal event: the canvas as an archive of concentration, the mark as a unit of duration, and the finished work as something that continues to unfold in the viewer’s perception, never fully fixed.

Pefanis holds a BA from the University of the Arts London and an MA from the Royal College of Art. His work is included in major private collections, including the Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens, and he undertakes select commissions.