George Pefanis (b. 1993, Athens) is a Greek painter whose work merges structural precision with a durational, meditative approach to image-making. He holds a BA from the University of the Arts London and an MA from the Royal College of Art. With a background in graphic design and visual communication, his practice is defined by large-scale paintings composed of hundreds of thousands of hand-painted dots.

Executed entirely by hand yet echoing the logic of pixels, scans, and static fields, these works exist in the tension between mechanical order and embodied labour. They are not simulations of digital systems but records of cognitive states: repetition as regulation, precision as durational trace.

His practice unfolds in two parallel series:

Subsurface reconfigures close encounters with natural environments — trees, water, sky — into immersive abstractions where surface becomes atmosphere. Built from chromatic fragments, the works hover between figuration and perceptual rhythm, suspending the viewer in states of stillness and vibration.

States of Perception shifts from external subjects to perception itself. Works that appear grayscale at a distance reveal dense chromatic complexity up close, destabilising visual certainty. Informed by visual cognition and neuroscience, the series asks how vision behaves under stress, and how trust in perception collapses.

Across both bodies, Pefanis treats painting as a cognitive and temporal experiment — an inquiry into how image, process, and attention converge, and how seeing itself can fracture.

His work is held in major private collections, including the Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens. He also undertakes select commissions.