Description

Floating Spirits — Original Abstract Painting

39½” × 27½” × 1¾”

About the Artwork & Waterfront Series

Floating Spirits is an original abstract painting by Gregory Christeas, inspired by a motorcycle journey through South Dakota’s Badlands that he shared with his son, Elias.

As they traveled through the ancient landscape, Christeas watched the sand drift beneath an expansive sky. Within the endless blue, he began imagining soft yellow forms rising and floating above the land.

Passages of blue, violet, white, yellow, and red move across the canvas like windblown sand and fragments of light. Their movement suggests mysterious spirits carried by the wind and settling quietly into the heart.

The experience became more than a passing moment. It developed into an immersion—a conversation with the Badlands and a feeling of being briefly welcomed into its deep and patient soul. Floating Spirits was later featured in Gregory Christeas’ Art and Freedom exhibition at the Cultural Olympiad Athens 2004.

This original canvas preserves a personal journey shared between father and son, transforming the physical landscape of the Badlands into color, movement, memory, and an enduring sense of spirit.

Gregory Christeas creates infinite abstract forms that transform like a wandering spirit in search of the realization of beauty. The Waterfront Series was developed over decades of exploring Abstract Expressionism, capturing light, water, architecture, and movement into layered compositions.

The Waterfront technique became the birthplace of the Parallels Series. Many works in this collection, including Floating Spirits, were featured in landmark international exhibitions, giving them significant and verifiable provenance.

By applying industrial pigments in multiple layers, Christeas creates bright fields where color and texture become structural, tangible elements. His paintings reveal radiant layers that balance chaos and serenity, transforming raw emotion into visual poetry.