Artists

The fragmentation of the images of Antonis Apergis function like copulative links in a sentence. Derived from life experiences, memories, senses and observations regarding the ruins and the cross-cultural debris, these images arise to the forefront of the stage through the intertwining of the layers. In such instances, the spectator gets the impression of peeling […]

There is a richness in the handling of Angelos’s paint surface, a seductive succulence in the glowing colours. He places his subject floating in space, the starry sky a paradoxical setting for the fruits and flowers, which have been nurtured in the earth below, an invention which is peculiarly the province of this artist, and

Nikos Angelidis was born in Athens. He was educated at The School of Fine Arts, Athens from 1977 to 1982, where he studied painting under Panaghiotis Tetsis, and attended courses in icon painting and fresco. Angelidis painted his first picture in 1963. “I was five years old, and had watched fire engines in a street

Nikos Alexiou was born on the island of Crete in 1960. At the age of 22 he moved to Austria to study at The Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. Two years later, he returned to Greece and studied at The School of Fine Arts, Athens. In 1985, Alexiou held his first solo exhibition at Desmos

Costas Alexiou was born on the island of Skyros. In 1941 he enrolled at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, where he studied painting under Constantinos Parthenis and Umberto Argyros. Alexiou’s work has a poetic feeling that is expressed through a selective color palette, simplicity and realism. He worked at the artistic department of Kerameikos

Akrithakis was born in Athens, 1939. As a young man he mixed in bohemian, intellectual and artistic circles, among which he met poet and philosopher, Giorgos Makris and writer, Kostas Tachtsis, who both became greatly influential for him. In 1958, he travelled to Paris on motorbike, where, like other artists, he lived an intense, disorderly

The painter and printmaker Mychael Barratt was born in Toronto, Canada. In London he became a full-time printmaker and almost immediately took up commissions for Liberty on Regent Street. Known for his superbly executed witty etchings, this Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter/Printmakers, who is also a commissioned artist for Shakespear’s Globe Theatre, also

Elias Adjitiris was born in Smyrni in 1872 and was the son of a merchant. He was admitted in the Academy of fine Arts, Munich in 1893 and studied nature under Nikolaos Gysis. His only surviving works are copies of famous artists such as Gabriel von Max, Rembrant, Caulbach, Rieder etc. He exhibited these works

Nikiforos Lytras was born on the island of Tinos in 1832. At the age of eighteen he moved to Athens to study at The School of Fine Arts, where he completed his studies in 1856. Later in 1860 on a scholarship from the Greek government he went to Munich to study at The Royal Academy

Jean Altamoura was born in Florence, and was the third child of Eleni Boukoura and Saverio-Francesco Altamoura, both notable artists. After their marriage ended Boukoura moved to Athens in 1857 or 1859 with her three children. Jean was taught his first art lessons from his mother and in 1871 enrolled at The School of Fine