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

With a background in graphic design and visual communication, Pefanis operates in the space where digital logics meet embodied labour. His paintings echo the structure of pixels, scans, and static fields, yet remain insistently analogue: each dot a decision, each surface a record of accumulated time, presence, and micro-shifts in internal state.

His practice is driven by questions of how images form, dissolve, and reorganise under sustained looking. Seen from afar, 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 behave like slow, silent experiments in visual cognition — 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 piece as something that continues to unfold in the viewer’s sight, 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.