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arts
Artworks &
ArtLights
- Artworks add value to a space.
- I have many years of experience in creating "Custom Made" artworks for hotels and homes.
"Park Life" at the Radisson Blu Park Hotel.
An art installation with 200 figures of people and animals, capturing play, walks, moments of relaxation, creating a "Tableau Vivant" of life in a park.
An important element of the work, is that the figures change position at regular intervals, since life in the park is in constant change.
The source of inspiration for the theme “PARK LIFE” was the name of the hotel "Park Hotel", part of the Radisson Blu hotel chain.
The art installation is located in the "Gallo Nero" restaurant of the Park Hotel.
Some of the 200 figures at the bar of the Gallo Nero restaurant, at the Radisson Blu Park Hotel:
Among the 200 figures, 2 characters from Sex and the City stand out,
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon),
on a daily walk in the park with their dogs.
"The Circle of Life" at Baltazar restaurant.
An artwork that talks about life, about childhood dreams and their realization.
About creation, achieving goals about the cycle of creation and destruction.
The deconstruction, which is the basis for a new beginning, for new dreams, for new creation.
"White Spirits" in the Lobby of the Radisson Blu Park Hotel.
- Butterflies, symbols of the soul and the spiritual world, come as helpers in every expression of our lives, from play to our most serious moments.
- In the artwork Paper Butterflies, create a vortex that lifts up one of the two bicycles.
"White Forest" at the"Rock n Roll Cafe - Mykonos"
A forest of "white tree trunks" that, as white guardian angels, stand as protectors in our lives. They protect us with their energy and with the Moral values they taught us.
Τhe artwork is made of strips of fabric, made of natural fibres.
"Lime Forest" at the Radisson Blu Park Hotel
A forest of "green tree trunks", symbols of our "living" loved ones, who also act as "Guardian Angels". Strong trees that protect us with their love, with their advice.
A work of gratitude for parents, friends, our own people.
Τhe artwork is made of strips of fabric, made of natural fibres.
The "FEATHERS" at "Adel Private Suites", in Mykonos.
"FEATHERS" from the art series "ICARUS"
-"FEATHERS" is an eternal and timeless symbol of Freedom.
Of freedom of Existence - of freedom of Thought - of freedom of Expression.
- "FEATHERS" were created for the suites of "Adel Private Suites" in Mykonos,
because they perfectly capture the spirit of freedom that characterizes this island.
- The "FEATHERS" were placed above the beds, as a symbol of Freedom, because in our dreams all people are Free.
Free to dream.
"Old Walls", painting with cement on canvas.
Aged walls have a great charm for me, with their embossed surfaces, the wear and tear, and the color patinas caused by time.
I revive this charm in this series of works, with references to concrete walls (gray), to Cycladic walls (white), to walls from mainland Greece (ochre patinas, indigo).
"Old Walls", at "Adel Private Suites", Mykonos.
"Wreck" - art series "Vacations"
"Shipwreck" is a three-dimensional painting (3D-Painting), made of hand-cut hard cardboard and painted with acrylics.
It has a total of 4 layers glued with spacers one on top of the other, thus enhancing the three-dimensional effect.
The work refers to memories and experiences of summer vacations.
- The entire "Vacations" series are 3D-Paintings.
- Photos of the work from its distinction in the international art competition,
of the Russian Museum of New York (MORA) and the IAF, in 2012:
"Beach Flowers" - art series "Vacations"
- Beach umbrellas, as colorful flowers of the beach, are symbols of protection with the message:
"Take your protection and move on to enjoy your life".
- "Beach Flowers" received a distinction at "ART TAKES TIMES SQUARE", the international visual arts competition in New York in 2012, by Artists Wanted.
Event with screening of the winning works on the giant screens in Times Square.
- "Beach Flowers" won a distinction at the DayOne international art competition in Florence in 2012.
- "RAFT" at the reception of "Adel Private Suites", in Mykonos.
"RAFT" - art series "Vacations"
- "DRAWINGS" is an experiential three-dimensional work.
- On such a raft, at dusk in Kalamitsi in Halkidiki, we are in the deep end and we eat melons cut in half with spoons.
As the sun sets, we fill the peels with tea lights and let them float like makeshift lanterns, illuminating the sea. Magic...
"Small Hedge" "Deck" "Pebbles"
"Hedges" - art series "Vacations"
"Fences" are three-dimensional paintings (3D – Paintings), made of hard cardboard, cut by hand and painted with acrylics.
It has a total of 2 layers glued with spacers one on top of the other, to enhance the three-dimensional effect.
The front layer creates a perforated "lace", which creates intense light and shadow effects.
The following works, "Small Hedge", "Deck" and "Pebbles", also belong to the art series "Vacations" :
-Blue poppies -The "Blue Valley" at the "Hip" restaurant café -Three-dimensional cutter
"Blue Valley" at Hip restaurant café.
- "Blue Valley" celebrates the beauty of life, underlining the value of every moment that passes and is lost, but leaves us with an imprint, a memory.
- The value of this memory and the irreplaceability of the moment is symbolically attributed to wildflowers, because they are so beautiful, fragile and last so little.
- I chose to paint the blue Himalayan poppies because of their rarity, to emphasize the rarity of every moment of our lives.
"London Javelin"
- 3D works made of plexiglass and hand-cut cardboard figures, painted with acrylics.
- Distinction in the international competition held in London during the 2012 Olympic Games, by Ashby Arts and JL Gallery.
Exhibition of "London Swimming" at the JL Gallery in London.
& "London Swimming"
"TATTOOS" - Cement engravings, on canvas.
I love seeing the tattoos on the bodies of the people around me.
As much as I like them, the idea of a permanent mark on me scares me.
Paradoxical, since I've never been scared by the permanent marks that time and life leave on us.
Everything that happens to us every day, as well as our desires and fears, leave us imprints, indelible marks like "TATOISES", both on our appearance and on our soul.
"Standing to think"
at Archset.
Two works, twins and mirror, constitute an invitation to think, with detachment.
The works refer to thinking with Stoicism, to the search for our true identity and to defining our goals before action.
& "Standing beyond reality"
at "J" restaurant.
- Hidden lighting behind the artwork in the "J" restaurant, Atrhens. - Detail:
"The Path of Life" at Gaspar restaurant café
- The utopia of a life's journey.
An agonizing journey of evolution, of discovery, forgetting how similar people's lives are, to end up where we started, at the Beginning.
- The artwork is a reminder that life is a game and that we should have fun with it.
- Emotions are a jungle that can swallow you up or lead you, through hidden paths, to mental upliftment.
- "Jungle Of Emotions" is the recording of emotions, after meditation.
"Jungle Of Emotions"
- Painting with Cement :
The cement is colored with Acrylics, pigments for iconography and inks, creating a new expressive medium.
The colored cement is the paint with which the canvas is painted.
Emotions, powerful and often contradictory, determine our existence and the way we act, consciously or unconsciously.
The "PRECIOUS" at Golden Smile, Kifisia, Athens.
"PRECIOUS" - art series "MERCURY"
"PRECIOUS" is a wall sculpture made of cement and noble metallic colors of my own composition.
It refers to the precious moment of fertilization of every idea, theory, inspiration.
In this way it refers to evolution.
- Dimensions of each "drop", from Φ 35 cm to Φ 15 cm.
The development of the project covers a large wall.
"BLACK MERCURY" - Wall sculpture.
Searching for the Light in the Darkness, I studied the sparkles and iridescence of Wild Black Pearls, to convey their charm in "BLACK MERCURY".
Every drop of it tries to balance the duality, male-female, Yin & Yang.
"BLACK MERCURY" is a wall sculpture, consisting of asymmetrical "drops", with a fluid form, in free composition.
The "drops" are made of cement and are painted with a dark charcoal color of my own composition, which creates iridescence.
An optimistic view of life. All issues have multiple solutions.
With calmness, boldness and innovative thinking, he always finds a way out of every issue.
The match as a symbol that can benefit us or destroy us.
It can warm our hearth or burn it down.
A work encouraging us to act with caution, care, tenderness and love.
"Solutions" at Golden Smile.
"Handle with Care" at Golden Smile.
"FALLEN MASK" - 3D wall sculpture.
- An artwork about the moment when masks fall and true faces are revealed.
- "FALLEN MASK" is a large-scale, shiny mask made of broken mirror on canvas, treated with cement and acrylic paints.
-Dimensions: Width 150cm – Height 100cm – Depth 8cm - Mixed technique.
"Cranes, Storks and Herons"
- An environmental issue, which reminds us that species extinction is happening every day. Storks, Herons and Cranes are such charming birds and their numbers are decreasing dramatically.
The work refers to the fond memories I have from childhood, of storks making nests on poles, of herons and cranes living in wetlands.
- The "CRANES" are made of wood, hand-cut, with of 1.35 m height.
They are painted with Acrylic paints.
"CRANES" are wall-mounted or floor-standing sculptures supported on a metal base.
Three-dimensional technique. - The "Backyard" placed in a Loft at Psiri, Athens.
"BACKYARD" - 3D painting, mixed medium.
"Backyard": The wall of a "Backyard" painted in coral tones and a tropical plant, the Monstera Deliciosa, climbs on it. It's an image I've seen in Santorini island.
The plant has been found in Greece for decades. We see it in many films from the 1960s.
- Monstera Deliciosa has a wonderful sculptural form with freedom of movement and
It is a symbol reminding us of the need to protect tropical forests.
- Technique: Three-dimensional painting. The leaves are hand-cut, placed
with spacers at different levels, making the work three-dimensional.
- Dimensions: 2 m Width X 1.25 m Height.
Dimensions: Height 120 X Width 170 cm - Placed in a Loft at Psiri, Athens.
"DRY STONE WALL" - 3D painting with cement
- If you have walked on the rocky slopes of the Greek islands with a view of the Aegean Sea, with the wind blow your hair with the smell of wild thyme, you will have met Dry Stone Walls, that sculpt the landscape.
- If you have lived this unique Experience of Freedom, gazing at the endless blue, perched on a Dry Stone, you will understand why I have created this artwork.
- "Dry Stone Wall" is a three-dimensional artwork. The "stones" are made of pressed paper, painted with cement. They are very lightweight with a thickness of only 3mm.
The "stones" are placed with spacers on canvas, creating a 3D effect.
"Dry Stone Wall" -Detail: Three-dimensional texture and composition - Cement painting.
Left and Right at the sides of the artwork, continues the Three-Dimensional structure.
"RUSTY HOOPS" - Wall sculptures.
I have always been fascinated by rusty iron rings, for their strength, for their history, for the beauty they have acquired over time.
Iron Rings are a symbol of solidity, security.
The older the Rings were, the more I liked them.
My "HOOKS" are very large, with a diameter of XL: 90 cm and L: 60 cm. The "HOOKS" are made of cement. They are painted with a rust effect and their embossed surface emphasizes the feeling that they are made from real corroded iron.
The "HOOKS" have a very sturdy appearance, but very low weight.
"Ivy" - art installation made from Paper Ivy.
- "IVY": An entire theater stage covered with hand-cut paper ivy.
An art installation with 1300 m of Discolored Paper Ivy, which refers to time, its connection with life and its ability to fade memories.
Whatever we experience, no matter how powerful it is, over time it gradually fades and eventually disappears with us.
The utopia of the importance of our experiences and the eternal struggle of man to defeat time, to hold on to life, through the memories of his experiences.
The art installation "Ivy" at the play "Flower of the Levant", at the Anesis Theater.
"SIESTA" placed in a Loft at Psiri, Athens.
"SIESTA" - 3D painting, mixed medium.
"SIESTA" a work that celebrates the relaxation of the Greek summer. At noon, under a palm tree that casts its shadow on a blue wall, i am gazing at the turquoise sea.
In my work "SIESTA", the palm leaves are hand-cut and placed at different levels, creating a three-dimensional effect.
Dimensions: 2 m Height X 1 m Width.
The surreal element of the painting is that the Shadow of the Palm Leaf is painted mirrored, rather than following its direction. Thus, the leaf and its shadow resemble two hands that tend to touch, to make a warm handshake.
"Hunger" at the TV show "Al Tsadiri News"
"Desert" at the TV show "Al Tsadiri News"
Art installation that speaks about the importance of electronic information as a dominant means of education, daily exchange of information and communication.
The cables used as "spaghetti" are cables for electronic connections, audio, video, computer and electrical cables.
The visual installation refers to LONELINESS. The wilderness that you create in the soul from isolation, whether from personal choices or from socio-political and economic factors.
The work highlights a major danger of the modern era, loneliness, which is contrary to the nature of man as a social being.
Inspiration picture :
-Wall mounting of the project,
in a Loft at Psiri, Athens.
"TREE SHADOWS" - multi-faceted artwork
-Do you like the shadows of the branches on the wall? These shadows of the bare branches were the source of inspiration.
- "SHADOWS" is a multi-faceted artwork made of wooden boards painted with acrylics.
In the black shadows of the branches, black hooks are attached that visually disappear.
The interactive element of the project appears when you hang an object on the hidden hooks of the artwork.
-Floor installation,
in a country house.
Dimensions: Height 150 x Width 90 cm
"UNDER THE SURFACE" - 3D mixed medium
Wandering around cities in Europe, I came across worn-out walls painted by street artists, which look like a wall being pulled down, revealing the bricks or the stones.
So I created a similar artwork, with a wall made of Lego bricks, which symbolize the special qualities that each person has hidden under a "gray" status mask.
On the Gray surface of my work, I created a three-dimensional aplique that illuminates, as a symbol of Hope and Optimism.
Artwork placed, in a Loft in Psiri, Athens.
MIXED MEDIA -"RAFT" The "RAFT" at " Adel Private Suites", Mykonos.
MIXED MEDIA -"DECK" The "DECK" at Villa Kampani, Mykonos.
"MIXED MEDIA" - Overpainted Prints.
- My original artworks are printed on canvas. Then they overpainted with changing a few details, to become new genuine mixed media artworks, knowned in the art community
as "MIXED MEDIA".
-The Repainted "MIXED MEDIA" works are a commercial proposition for hotels looking for authentic works of art at a lower cost.
"BEACH FLOWERS" - MIXED MEDIA