Rena Anousi-Hlia

Wood engraving

She was born in Athens and she studied Printmaking at the Athens school of Fine Arts.

She does graphic design for booksand other printed materials and also she illustrates children's books. Her artworks can be found in the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Cultural Centre and the Gallery of the Municipality of Athens, the Cretan Academy, the Oenousses Museum, the Municipality of Leukada and the Delphi Museum, as well as in many private collections in Greece and abroad. 

Wood engraving

Faces (ink on paper)

Blare (wood engraving)

Old man in Samothraki (wood engraving)

Adrianos (Sotiris)

Portrait of young woman (oil on canvas)

Figure depented from the shadow IV (selfportrait)

(oil on canvas)

Adrianos Sotiris was born in Athens 1977. He studied painting at the Athens School of fine Arts under professor Dimitris Mitaras and Zaharias Arvanitis. He graduated with honors the year 2004.

Matina (oil on canvas)

The twins (oil on canvas)

Twins (oil on canvas)

Maria Filopoulou

Bather III (oil on canvas)

Maria Filopoulou was born in Athens in 1964. She studied painting in Paris

at the ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts under Leonardo Cremonini during the period 1984 - 88. Continued with postgraduate studies at the same school, with a French Government scholarship, during the period 1988 - 89 (lithography under Abrahad Hadad). Her works are to be found in the National Gallery, in the Greek Parliament, and in private museums and collections in Greece and abroad.

Underwater swimmers I (oil on canvas)

Underwater swimmer I (oil on canvas)

" I paint to express myself, and to create a sense of personal freedom and space.

I observe the visible, and present my own reality. Despite the constraints of the canvas, which allow me only two dimensions to work with, I am still able to create horizons that open up spaces, full of enchantment. I lose myself in the adventure of painting, among the ideas and pathways that my imagination summons up for me. The adventure is self-knowledge, and I am always hungry to know more, and to paint more. "

Boat (oil on canvas)

Ancient pool, Hierapolis (oil on canvas)

Maria Filopoulou

" The colours and the strong light are aspects of my preoccupations. When I paint, I ignore the edges of the canvas extending beyond it onto the wall or the floor. I have an obsession for fitting everything into the work, even myself. I want to feel that I am in the picture, an actual part of it. This for me is a truly liberating experience. 

The unique qualities of freedom, and the freedom associated with rhythm and breathing are contrasts that provide my painting with a source of energy. Each piece of work is a new adventure with an ending that cannot be anticipated."

* The informations about the artist and her work were taken from www. mariafilopoulou.com

Valli Nomidou - Let it Bleed

In 2010 the greek sculpturer, Valli Nomidou, presented her work " Let it bleed " in Fizz Gallery.

The exhibition is a series of life-size sculptures, as well as, a series of individual body parts, such as heads or hands, all made of paper. The work depicts young women and young girls. The female figures impress with their naturalness, the perfection of modelling and the beauty of volume.

Paper, Nomidou's dominant materials, constitutes a key component in her creative process, linked to a painful and systematic research on the technical level, as well as on that of aesthetic intergration. The artist respects her material and althought it is cheap and vulnerable, she does not "adulterate" it by using other materials

Nomidou builds and shapes her works from the inside out solely using papaer and paperboard. The internal cardboard frame is built with vertical and horizontal grid in order to be able to suppport and render stillness in her sculptures, while also ensuring balance in contraction and expansion.

Nomidou's figures coexist in space, with the similarities and shared features which characterise them with respect to technical, aesthetic and conceptual development. The figures, quite, silent, their eyes closed, stand detached, their introversion prevailing. Solitary creatures, with an inclination towards the inner, the intimate, the hermetic, where the pain, although intense, remains silent and internalised.

* Parts of the text are borrowed from Dr Lina's Tsikouta-Deimezi (Curator, National Gallery) blog.