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Gero Gries has dedicated himself to creating artistic works using digital techniques.

His large-scale, precisely realised interior illustrations and portraits are highly stylised computer-generated images, showing interior spaces that refer to the interior as an artistic entity.

Every detail up to the individual pixel is accurately calculated and rendered, but, as he says himself, worked out in a carefree manner. Gero Gries understands computer-aided image production as a continuation of painting by other means. Although his images seem photo-realistic, they could not be achieved with a traditional lens. The images are entirely constructed by the artist himself, using an array of continuously developing computer techniques, which place Gries' work in closer proximity to painting than to photography. The comparison becomes more evident due to the artist's choice of classical themes and genres.

Because Gero Gries borrows and sometimes incorporates various genres and motifs from art history, he works within a long tradition of artists. Vermeer for instance, using sun beams, breaks with the oppressive mood of a closed room. Gero Gries chooses a similar arrangement. Formed in his own smooth, but no less emotionally charged style, his adaptation is characterised by an overly realistic depiction of surfaces and an exact projection of light.

Gero Gries uses the technical possibilities presented by his software to produce a diverse range of surface textures,  and achieves images with a visual clarity that could not be achieved by analogue photography.