Pambos MICHLIS was born in Achna, in the Famagusta district of Cyprus, in 1947 and died in 2026.

At the age of twenty, he moved to Famagusta, where he established his first studio and began developing his artistic practice. His first solo exhibition was held at the Lykeion Ellinidon in Famagusta in 1969. Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, he relocated to Limassol, where he continued to live and work for many years.

Michlis was a self-taught Cypriot sculptor, ceramicist, painter and scenographer. In 1980, together with other artists, he founded the Art Workshop, a creative space in which local and foreign artists worked and exchanged ideas. With the opening of his own workshop in 1985, he devoted himself fully to art, working across ceramics, painting and sculpture and experimenting with a wide range of materials.

His work is strongly associated with expressive ceramic and sculptural forms. His inspiration often came from Greek and Egyptian mythology, as well as from symbolic and human subjects. Pomegranates, angels, mythological figures, lovers and youthful male and female forms appear frequently in his work, rendered with emotional warmth, decorative strength and poetic imagination.

Michlis’s artistic language is characterised by expressive modelling, rich surface treatment and a deep sensitivity to form. His stoneware ceramics and sculptural works combine symbolic content with a strong tactile presence, creating objects that move between mythology, memory, love and transformation.

Pambos Michlis participated in more than thirty-five solo and group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad. His works have appeared in galleries, private collections and auctions, and he remains recognised as an important Cypriot artist whose contribution to sculpture, ceramics, painting and scenography occupies a distinctive place in contemporary Cypriot art.