About me
Hello ! My Friends call me
Zoi and I am a Greek and French.
In this page you can learn few things about me and the way I approach my artwork !
So here it is…
I play with my creativity since I remember myself. As a multidisciplinary person I was blessed enough to embrace this precious gift of self expression in a variety of ways.
Today I Paint, illustrate, write from poetry to fiction until philosophical essays and songs.
I love tea, my cat and salted caramel, as well as traveling in all possible, real and essential forms. I'm trying to not loose contact with my piano, enjoy singing ,dance, practice yoga and I learn every day about human functioning and the healing effects of my disciplines which also fascinates me. I celebrate movement, question the passing of time and it's meaning through memory and present perception. I embrace all I do with a common domination : always seek to “be” and “do” in a way that an artificial intelligence could not achieve.
Artistic approach
‘'Art like fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth’’
Inspired primarily by nature and animals, I construct my visual metaphors poetically based on what touches my sensibility, usually through a tender and sometimes critical eye.
While philosophy engage with a highly intellectual approach, the creative world is for me a space dedicated to my heart.
It is through writing that I bring the two worlds together, with an enthousiasm for children's literature, which allows a fabulous marriage between text and image.
My approach to painting combines the expressive freedom of the abstract and the premeditated narration of the figurative. Poetry is always in the heart of my artworks. I embrace each art piece like a visual poem carrying a story, an emotion.
For me, the artist is an alchemist and a healer of the spirit.
I would like to caress hearts, impact gazes, hold hands, and remind people of the importance of nature and the quest for meaning and truth.
My favourite lines to draw are those forming smiles on people’s faces when They feel a Little bit less alone and a Little bit more connected, with some sparkles in their eyes. Because Art is by people for people, it is a bridge and a connection, shared secrets, told stories, an emotion awakening others. However we define art, it has a meaning only once it is a soul’s matter, and in this way, no matter how impressively AI might evolve and execute perfectly tasks, it might produce fancy products but it will never create art. Because art without a human origin has no meaning and without meaning it is not art.
Engagement
Creating my own handmade water colours and oil paints based on natural and environmentally friendly but archivable ingredients, natural mineral pigments. It is a long, slow, costful but Beautiful process. I combine them with carefully sélecte mediums found in the market. Even if individually we can not save the world collective we can try to do our best with small or big ges tures when it is possible and affordable.
Academic Background & Questionings
I am coming from a long academic background in Philosophy, since I always needed to question and expand my way of thinking. That’s how I am treasuring two MPhil, one in History of Philosophy, Metaphysics and Phenomenology, then another one in Philosophy of Arts and Aesthetics, in Sorbonne University in Paris.
My research and thesis where exploring Playfulness and Creativity involved in the transitional place experienced in Arts, and also as a Laboratory of possibilities and the exploration of our reality’s perception.
I had also an Art background in a University Department of Fine Arts and sciences of arts in Greece (Ioannina) which I left to develop my own personal style and focus on my other Studies.
In the beginning I was wandering how I would combine my formal studies and my artistic needs, while struggling to find a ready made place for me into this world and it's jobs markets. Which is not surprising at all. I was created to create a place I could feel like mine and inspire others to find a path which reflets who They really are. Today I embrace my journey with all it’s paradoxes and diversity.
I will be more than delighted if you join me in this adventure and I am excited to share with you my creations. I hope that they will make you feel, dream, think and most of all smile from the bottom of your heart.
Here you will find Original artworks, art prints and illustrations plenty of poetic details and philosophical essence. Playful, mixed techniques, storytelling and scenography delicately cocooning on emotional abstract backgrounds.
Answers that come as questions, details that monopolise the intention, reality dressed as in a daydream, adulthood remembering once upon a time, problematics dancing naively, fairydust and ocean’s mystery, metaphor’s melody. Sweet as honey soft as a teddy bear truth comes like a bird you would like to hear.
When I was a child I was calling the feeling of wellness I could find in a specific place and present moment : ‘‘καλή ζέστη’’ (kali zesti) which in greek means : ‘‘good warmth’’. A sweet sensation of cocooning that was residing firstly inside me and under proper conditions I was able to find and enjoy. I whish you will find this feeling in this ‘‘in between’’ personal space I am sharing with you.
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“When I feel Lost, I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been."
- Winnie the Pooh