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I was born in 1959 in Drama and live in Kavala, a city of northern Greece.
As far back as I remember, I always liked painting. I have not studied painting at any art school. I consider myself self-taught. I assume that Caravaggio, Velasquez and Rembrandt are my teachers. I studied the theory and history of art for many years now.
During my childhood I used to copy the classic painters in order to learn how to paint. I was provided with art books which I studied continuously. That period I was influenced by Dali and Magritte. I created my first compositions with surrealism and symbolism in mind.
From 1985 I have started to make my first attempts on abstract compositions.
My works are exhibited rarely in several topical group exhibitions.
In 2000, I felt at a loss and I decided to follow the basic instructions of experienced wayfarers who advise that, as soon as you feel that you have been lost, the wisest action is to follow your footsteps backwards until you find yourself in known places. Therefore, I started to travel back to the constant values of the grandmasters. I studied the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Paulo Uccelo, Piero de la Francesca, attempting to captivate the ineffable merit of the work of the big figures of art. I was trying to arrest the quintessence of painting. I tried to use sand and glue in order to create a surface on canvas emphasising the colours and lines with this rough texture.
Although my artwork appears abstract, nothing is random, except the wet colour, the lines dances composing abstract figures reminding the viewers familiar scenes moving at the edge between the remembrance and oblivion.
Therefore, the real meaning of the art is what cannot be said, its ineffability.

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