The collage technique which was applied so assiduously by J. Spyropoulos already during the Sixties, with the marginal assimilation of the foreign body within the uniform substance of the painting itself, continued to be used in the period 1976-1987, with undiminished inventiveness. The painter refined his paintings layer by layer, enclosing within them qualities which constituted the matires of the modelling and permitted the emergence of the interior landscapes which demand a sensitive viewer in order to be fully revealed.

In this final period Spyropoulos made greater use of “readable” fragments of printed image. He left recognisable parts of photographs which were skilfully “tied in” with the "spirit" and the structure of the total composition. In this way a dialogue was created between what pre-existed and what in the end by means of his personal refinements becomes significant. A method of reading is promoted where what has been seen a thousand times becomes novel again, because these things are brought to the fore and redefined.