Akis Tsevis (b. 1958)
Was born in Ioannina. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under the tuition of D. Mytaras and in the obligatory two-years sculpture course.

Alekos Fasianos (b. 1935)
Was born in Athens in 1935. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Professor Moralis (1956 - 1960). A French government scholarship enabled him to study lithography in Paris (1960 - 1963). His work has been widely exhibited in Greece and abroad. He has also produced sets and costume designs for the theatre, as well as illustrations for various books and publications. Fasianos lives and works in Athens and Paris.

Fasianos is one of Greece’s foremost contemporary artists and his work is popular with audiences young and old. His work is typified by ageless figures, often naked and with their hair streaming in the wind. In an instantly recognisable, highly personal, style his work has been described by Le Figaro's Jean-Marie Tasset as "dazzling draughtsmanship which is reminiscent of Matisse". To mark Fasianos’ 70th birthday in 2005, the National Art Gallery in Athens organised a major retrospective of 300 works in oil, while a major book on his work was published in Paris by Editions La Difference.

Alkis Pierrakos (b. 1920)
Born in Thessalonica 1920, Alkis Pierrakos studied painting at the Gewerbeschule in Basel (1948-1950) and the Slade's School of London (1951-1953).  He had his first solo exhibition at Cambridge (1954).  Other one-man and group shows followed in Greece and abroad.  That same year he settled in Paris, where he became member of the group "La Ligne et le Signe".  His work is characterized by the personal lyric style which he has created in the frame of abstract expressionism.  He lives and works in Paris.

Andreas Asproftas (1919 - 2004)
He was born in Tripimeni village in 1919 and died in Nicosia, 2004. He graduated from the Cyprus National Music School and from the Fine Art School of Perugia. He had many solo exhibitions and he participated in many group ones.

Andreas Charalambides (b. 1939)
Born in Paphos in 1939. Studied painting in Athens. Continued his studies at the University of Reading, in England . Has exhibited his work in Cyprus and abroad (Greece, England, U.S.A., Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, France, India).

Andreas Charalambous (b. 1940)
Born in Nicosia, 1940. Studied at the Sourikov State Institute of Fine Arts in Moscow (1969 - 1975). Between 1978 - 1980 worked as Assistant Professor of Monumental Art at the same institute. In 1983 was a visiting professor at Praft University in New York. Founder and manager of the Gallery “The Artist’s House”. Since 1980 runs his own Fine Arts School in Nicosia. Has also been involved in poster art, illustrated book covers, translated theatrical plays and gave lectures on History of Art.
Has shown his work in one man exhibitions and also participated in group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad, Greece, Soviet Union, Former Yugoslavia, Germany, France 1977, Belgrade, International Exhibition of Fine Arts.

Andreas Chrysohos (b. 1929)
Born in Milia, Famagusta, 1929. Studied painting at Goldsmiths’ College, School of Art of the University of London and psychology of children’s art at N.E. London Polytechnic. Worked as teacher of art at the Pedagogical Academy and Art Inspector. Involved in art criticism, icon-painting and calligraphy.
Has shown his work in one-man exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad, Greece, Cairo, Boston, U.S.A. 7th Panhellenic Exhibition 1968. 7th Biennale of Alexandria, 1st India Triennale, 34th Venice Biennale 1969, London, Budapest, Prague, former East Germany, etc.
Distinctions: First International watercolour Award in Lodnon 1950, honourary medal in Alexandria 1963, Grand Prix Europeen des Arts et des Lettres in Nice, 1968. 

Andreas Karayan (b. 1943)
Born in Nicosia, 1943. Degree in Medicine, University of Athens, 1967. Studied Art at Central and Camberwell Schools of Art, London, 1968 - 1972. Studied etchine at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart, German 1975. Art Teachers’ Training Course, London 1976 - 1977. Has shown his work in one-man Exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad: Greece, Germany, Egypt, Biennale of Venice, 2001 (representing Cyprus), 2002 Gallery LIA RUMMA, Napoli, Italy.

Andreas Krystallis (1901 - 1951)
He was born in Asia Minor in which is now a part of Turkey, after the end of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, he moved to Mytilini on the island of Lesvos. He entered the Royal Greek Navy (now the Greek Navy) and finished his career with his larger brother. Quickly as he resigned because he wanted to delivered exclusively in writing, he moved to Piraeus. He visited Paris in 1928 where he lived for three years at the École de Beaux Arts. He returned to Greece and moved to Athens and in Mytilini. He died in Athens.

His work is about oil and water paintings with the knowledge mainly from the sea. He was a lyrical impressionist.

Andreas Ladommatos (b. 1940)
Andreas Ladommatos was born in Nicosia, 1940, and showed his talent in painting and drawing when he was a child and during his schooling at the Pancyprian Gymnasium, secondary school, where he was taught painting and drawing by the famous Cypriot artist Telemachos Kanthos.
After he left school, Ladommatos studied art at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts in London during the years 1960 - 1964 under the guidance of renowned artists like Frank Auerbach, Peter Uglow, Robert Medley.
Andreas Ladommatos’ art is found in important private and public collections in Cyprus, the Presidential Palace, most Ministers’ Offices, The State Gallery, Municipal Collections, the Collection of Makarios III Institution etc.
The University of Cyprus owns a comprehensive collection of his work, donated by the artist and his wife Mary.
His work is to be found also in private collections in numerous countries in Europe, the United States and Australia.

Andros Efstathiou (b. 1964)
Born in Cyprus, 1964. He studied at the N.Y. Studio School of New York. Has shown his work in one man exhibition and Participated in group exhibition in Cyprus and abroad  (New York, Biennale Alexandria, and Biennale Florendia 2001).

Antonis Kanas (1915 - 1995)
Graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1948, having studied painting with O. Argyros and E. Thomopoulos, and engraving with G. Kefallinos. During the Nazi occupation he took active part in the National Resistance, and was stigmatised for his paintings that he exhibited at the Professional Exhibition of 1943. His favourite themes are seascapes, ships, battles, and views of ports.

Apostolos Geralis (1886 - 1983)
Apostolos Geralis was born in Lesbos in 1886.Initially he studied woodcarving and then decorative arts and painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. In 1910 he took up a position at the Pancyprian Secondary School in Nicosia where he taught until 1915. He continued his studies at the Julien Academy. He died in Athens in 1983.

Apostolos Lavdas (b. 1940)
Born in Greece, Piraeus 1940. Studied Art at Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1962 - 1965) Brussels and Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1965 - 1966), Paris. He participated in many solo and group exhibitions.

Apostolos Tsirogiannis (b. 1946)
Apostolos Tsirogiannis was born in 1946 in Arta, Greece. He began his studies alongside Panos Sarafianos, a close frined of Alekos Kontopoulos. In 1966 he enrolled the Preparatory Studio of the Athens School of Fine Arts under the instruction of Nikos Nikolaou. He next attended classes at the painting studio of Yannis Moralis and studied History of Art alongside Pandelis Prevelakis (1909-1986). During the last two years of his studies he became a fellow of ASFA, from which he graduated with Honors in 1971.

Athina Antoniadou (b. 1962)
Born in Nicosia in 1962. Studied art at the Paris Junior College, in Texas and the California College of Arts and Crafts (B.F.A.) California, U.S.A, Doctorate at the “San Fernando” School of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain. Has exhibited her work in Cyprus and abroad (Spain, U.S.A.,Bulgaria, Greece).

Carl Haag (1820 - 1915)
CARL HAAG was born in Bavaria on 1820 and died on 1915. A naturalized British Painter, court Painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was trained in the academies at Nuremberg and Munich. He practiced first as an illustrator and as a painter, in oil, of portraits and architectural subjects, but after he settle in England in 1847, he devoted himself to water colors, and was elected associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water colors in 1850 and member in 1853. He traveled much visiting Dalmatia, Egypt, Syria, the Holy Land and Greece, and made a considerable reputation by his firmly drawn and carefully elaborated paintings of Eastern Subjects. Towards the end of his professional career Carl Haag quitted England and returned to Germany.
In 1986 the the Greek Filotelique Service in Athens issued a commemorative "Greece - Europe" envelope using a Carl Haag painting of the Acropolis.

Charilaos Dikaios (1911 - 2009)
Born in Nicosia. Studied architecture at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Paris under Tony Garnier and Auguste Perret. During the same time he also studied painting. In 1945 received the Degree of Architecture and returned to Cyprus, where he worked as architect and painter. In 1967 was awarded the title of "Chevalier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Government.

Christakis Polydorou (b. 1960)
Born in Paphos in 1960. Studied at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Athens and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris in France. Has exhibited his work in Cyprus and abroad (Greece, Kuwait, France, Bulgaria, China, England, United Arab Emirates, Croatia.

Christoforos Savva (1924 - 1968)
Born in Marathovouno, 1924. Studied art in London at St. Mantin’s School of Art and Heatherley’s School of Art (1947 - 1953) and in Paris at the Andre Lhote Academy (1956 - 1959). In Cyprus developed extensive artistic and cultural activities. In 1955 founded the “Art-Lovers’ Society” and in 1960 together with Glyn Hughes the Apophasis Gallery, which developed into the first cultural center of the newly founded Cyprus Republic. Died in Sheffield in 1968.

Christos Christou (b. 1950)
Christos Christou was born in Pafos in 1950.  After his studies in Paris (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, where he specialised in painting, frescoes and lithography, he settled there. His main work, which revolves around man and beings of the animal kingdom (horses, birds, bulls etc), is characterised by a dream-like surrealism that recalls early renaissance frescoes with sculptural forms.

Christos Eleftheriades (1926 - 1988)
Christodoulos Kodjapashis (real name) was born in Mammari on the 28th October 1926 and died on the 6th of November 1988, at the age of 62. He started to paint systematically from 1969 following a visit to a Pancyprian Exhibition of Art.

Christos Foukaras (b. 1944)
Born in Kissonerga, 1944. Studied art in the Sourikov Institute of Fine Arts in Moscow (1970-1976). Studied painting for the first two years and then specialized for the next four in monumental painting at the Studio of Professor Claudia Alexandrovna Toutevol. Awarded the M.A. in 1976.

Christos Kangaras (1918 - 2010)
Kangaras was born in Granitsa Eurytanis, 1918. His style is naïve and characterised by rare purity. His form and use of colour in some of his work is of exceptional quality. He has exhibited in solo exhibitions in Athens.

Constantinos Maleas (1879 - 1928)
Maleas was born and grew up in Constantinople, far away from the Greek artistic centre in Athens. The young painter avoided therefore the influence of the Munich School that dominated Athenian Art. He studied at the Phanar Greek Orthodox College and then left for Paris in 1901 at an age of 23 years old to study initially architecture. In Paris he eventually decided to study painting until 1908 near Henri Martin. In 1913 he returned to Greece, initially in Thessaloniki and then based in Athens. In 1917 he became a member of the avant-guard art group Ομάδας Τέχνης that imported the international contemporary art movements to Greece. He travelled extensively in Greece, Western Europe, Palestine and Egypt where he drew some of the subjects for his famous landscapes. Apart from painting, he was also involved in the public discussion on the modernisation of the Greek language. He was a friend of Glenos, Delmouzos and Triantafylidis. He has illustrated the first alphabet book in the new modern Greek language Demotiki (Αλφαβητάρι με τον ήλιο). He has written articles to the newspapers Nouma, Elefthero Vima and in many art journals. Maleas has been recognised for his artistic contribution from the Greek Government which awarded him with the Highest Acknowledgement of Letters and Arts.

Maleas work has been influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and from the art movements of symbolism, impressionism and fauvism. His paintings are characterised by the very light and bright colours, the large brushes that revolutionalised the stagnant Athenian art of the time. Most art critics have condemned his work snd it was only Fotos Politis that recognised the value of Maleas work and urged the young artists to learn from Maleas paintings. Maleas is still one of the most popular Greek modern artists and his works are exhibited at the National Gallery of Athens and elsewhere.

Constantinos Romanidis (1884 - 1972)
Constantinos Romananidis was born in 1884 in Athens. He studied at the School of Fine Arts. He died in Athens in 1972.

Costas Averkiou (1917 - 1981)
Born at Psimolophou.
Self-taught painter and engraver. Exhibited hiw work in Cyprus and abroad (Russia, Egypt, Italy).

Costas Economou  (b. 1925)
Born in Kissonerga (Pafos) 1925.
Studies: Teachers’ Training College, at Morphou, King Alfred’s College (Winchester, England) London University (Art Department of Institute of Education), St. Martin’s School of Art (London).
He has taught Art in primary and secondary schools of Cyprus and has served as an Inspector of Art in Primary Education.
He is mainly a painter but he does a lot of engravings and sculptures. In painting he works in oils, acrylics and his favourite water-colours.
His works are included in public and private collection in Cyprus and abroad (State Collection of Contemporary Art, Makarios Foundation Collection; Paphos, Larnaca and Corju Municipalities Collections, Smolyan State Gallery etc, Monumental works (reliefs and murals, can be found in schools, banks, churches and private houses).

Costas Joachim
Born in Bellapais. He studied art at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, UK, and the University of Bristol, from 1960, with specialisation in painting, sculpture and visual perception. He also specialised in art education. In 1963 he was awarded the Degree of Fine Arts and Education from the University of Bristol and in 1975, he received the Certificate of Fine Art of the School of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic in Athens. In 1981 he received the Diploma of Post Graduate Studies in aesthetics and history of art, at Byam Shaw and Chelsea College of Art, London. Costas Joachim has held 15 one-man shows in Cyprus and Germany, and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad – in significant exhibitions- in Berlin, Munich, Los Angeles, Paris, Montecatini, Hamburg, Athens and London, and represented Cyprus at several International Biennale.

Costas Coulentianos (1918 - 1995)
Born 1918 in Athens. Studied sculpture at the Athens Academy of Fine Arts (1936-9). Went to Paris 1945 on a French government scholarship to study at the Academie de la grande chaumiere. Lived in France until his death in Arles in 1995. Held more than 30 solo exhibitions in art galleries all over the world, and took part in major international group exhibitions, including: regular appearances at the Salon de la jeune sculpture and the Salon de mai in Paris; Antwerp Biennale (1953), Sao Paulo Biennale (1955), and Venice Biennale (1964, with Zongolopoulos; 1982, representing Greece in the sculpture section). His works grace public spaces in a number of European cities, including Lyons, Brussels, and Athens. His activities also included organising sculpture workshops at the Ecole des arts decoratifs in Paris (1975-6) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseilles (1979-80). Was made a Chevalier des lettres et des arts in 1984. Was a member of the Tomi art group. Worked in tapestry.
Having settled in Paris and made the acquaintance of the sculptor Henri Laurens, Coulentianos moved away from academic forms, thereafter working exclusively in metal (tin, lead, copper, iron, steel). The human body, usually female, was his main subject at first. His works became increasingly stylised, with emphasis on geometrical structures. His 'bolted' sculptures of the '70s epitomised his career to date, being works of usually large dimensions and consisting in assemblages of flat or curved surfaces, pure in form but dynamic in movement. Their characteristic feature is painted iron (black, red, or white).

Costas Tsoclis (b. 1930)
Born 1930 in Athens. Studied at the Athens Academy of Fine Arts (1948 - 54) under Moralis. Lived and worked in Rome (1957 - 60) with a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation, then moved to Paris, where he lived until 1976. Went to Berlin with a DAAD scholarship (1971 - 2), then divided his time between Athens and Paris until 1983. Has spent increasingly long periods in Greece ever since. Has shown his work in solo exhibitions in the largest cities in Europe and the United States, and taken part in major international group events, including: Paris Biennale (1963, 1965), Sao Paulo Biennale (1965), Documenta (Kassel 1975). Represented Greece at the Venice Biennale 1986, with Karas. Tribute to his youthful work (1950 - 9) presented by the Frysira Museum (2001). Major retrospective of his work in the National Museum of Contemporary Art (2001). Has been a member of the Sigma group. His works for public spaces include the forecourt of the Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki (1988), and the Ethnikis Amynis underground railway station, Athens (2000).

Dafni Trimikliniotou (b. 1945)
Born in Limassol in 1945. Emigrated to London in 1959. Studied at Horsney College of Art. Had 12 one-person shows in Cyprus and London and participated in various group exhibitions.

David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
Was born is Scotland in 1796. After moving to London, he achieved a respectable reputation as an artist prior to 1838 when he traveled to Egypt and the Holy Land to paint the monuments, architecture and people. Upon his return to England, his works were published (in conjunction with the lithographer Louis Haghe) in a six volume set, in which all 248 lithographs were hand colored. The first three volumes depicted Egypt and Nubia; the second three, the Holy Land. The set, which was sold by subscription, was an immediate success. Roberts was admitted to the Royal Academy and he continued to travel and paint until his death in 1864. After more than 150 years his paintings are still the most beloved and popular illustrations of Egypt and are highly sought after by collectors.

Demetris Michlis (b. 1954)
Born in Achna, Famagusta. Studied painting at St. Martin's School of Art in London (B.A., M.A), under well known painters, such as the Polish painter Joseph Herman. During the intervals which he spent in Cyprus worked at the "Art Workshop" in Limassol along with his brother Pambos Michlis and other artists. In 1986, together with Garth Frost, founded the shadow puppet theatre "To pidichto lemoni" (The Jumping Lemon).      

Diana Antonakatou (b. 1922)
Born at Argostoli in 1922. She studied painting with Costas Parthenis and etching with Yannis Kefallinos at the School of Fine Arts, Athens  (1944 - 1949).  She had her first solo exhibition in Athens (1953).  Her work was exhibited in many solo and group shows in several Greek cities as well.  She illustrated a number of books, newspapers, magazines and calendars and has issued albums with her work depicting several regions of Greece (Cephalonia 1957, Ionian Islands 1966, Argolis 1968, Nauplion 1971, Greek Monasteries 1976 and 1979, Messinia 1984 and Nauplion 1988). Together with painting she was engaged in journalism, literature and historical research and was awarded by the Academy of Athens, the Ministry of Culture, the "Twelve" a.o.  Combining impressionism with expressionism, she has created a distinctive personal style in her work where the limpidity of colours is dominant. She lives and works in Athens and Kephalonia.

Dimitris Armakolas was born in 1939 in Athens of islander parents. In 1952, at the age of twelve, he exhibited terracotta sculptures and witnessed his first critics in period newspapers. In 1957 he participated in an exhibition with copies of Post-Byzantine and Popular Greek art. In 1956, at the age of seventeen, he enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts to study sculpture, from which he graduated in 1960. In the same year the University of Athens granted him a scholarship to further his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There he worked on a series of sculptures in wood entitled Erotic - Bimorfic, which he subsequently presented at international exhibitions. Upon his return to Greece the Greek Presidency honored him with the 1st Sculpture Award in the 2nd Panhelladic Exhibition of Young Artists (1962). He then worked on a series of sculptures in iron and concrete under the title Monomorphic - Pulses and was again honored with the Presidency's 1st Sculpture Award (1970). During this period he collaborated with architects and produced a series of relief architectural ornaments, combining sculpture with architecture.

In 1974 a work of his was distinguished by UNESCO and was included in the collection entitled Art as Environment. At that time he began to work with bronze and marble, producing a great series of works that were characterized by the combination of opposites, which turned out to result in a poetical realism. In 1991 was published the book Armakolas 1960 - 1990, which presents retrospectively all of his artworks, with a commentary by Academician Professor Chryssanthos Christou. In concision, the artistic evolution of Armakolas' artistic development may be summed up as follows: in the 1960s he engaged with the surface of abstract forms - in 1965 began his interest in dissimilar textures - In the 1970s he introduced abstract geometry in figuration - in 1975 he employed naturalistic patterns (breakages and cracks) to enliven the texture - from 1980 he has been experimenting with the interplay of naturalistic and abstract elements.

In 2002 Dimitris Armakolas combined workshop and home by remodelling a neoclassical building at the intersection of Zoodochos Pigi and Smolensky Streets in Neapoli of Athens. Unfortunately it was there that he found tragic death from suffocation when his scarf was caught in the electric wheel, while trying to refine one of his sculptures, on the afternoon of 16 May 2009. He was exactly 70 years of age.

Dimitris Constantinou (1924 - 2010)
He was born in Alexandria in 1924. After completing his general education, he went on to study Artistic Metalwork (Arte in Ferro Battuto) at the Italian Technical School Don Bosco. He began exhibiting his sculptures in 1960. Since this first period of his creative presence, public and critics noted his ingenuity, technical skills and creative imagination. There followed a number of participations in group exhibitions, and in a number of occasions he represented Cyprus, as a permanent resident of the island, in international competitions. His career included many a one-man show, which more often than not attract the attention and favourable comments of art theorists and critics. In 1970 he was awarded second prize in Sculpture at the International Biennale of Alexandria. In 1981 he received an honorary invitation to the US by well known architect Herber Bayer, to set up his sculptures at Aspen Colorado and Oklahoma.Works of his are to be found in many public and private collections in Greece and abroad.

Dimitris Koukos (b. 1948)
Was born in Athens, Greece. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1969 -1974) painting under Nikos Nikolaou and Ioannis Moralis, and stage design under Vassilis Vassiliadis. He received a state scholarship to further his studies at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris (1975 - 1978) under Gustav Sengiers.

Dimitris Milionis (b. 1960)
Born in Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Athens, Greece. A self taught visual artist.
Dimitris C.Milionis is presently living and working in Athens, Greece since 1974. Born in Sydney, Australia 1960.

As a teenager since 1972-74 besides his traditional academic studies, he explores technical drawing, wood and metal workshops at Tempe Languages High School (Sydney, Au.). From 1974-78 at American Community Schools (ACS) Academy School in Athens, he explores B&W photography, 8mm film and video he takes studies in drawing, mechanical drawing and architecture including printmaking in linocuts. In 1979-80 he works on several Greek films and serials in post production. During this period he involves himself with the study of Film & Theatrical Costumes related to and Ancient Greek Theater Stage, Props and Sceneography while he re-explores Painting in all mediums and several other art forms as traditional Greek Orthodox Byzantine Iconography, Etching, Sculpture, Design and Screen Printing.

Dimitris Mytaras (b. 1936)
Dimitris Mytaras was born in Chalkida (Greece).
He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and stage design at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. In his works, the most prominent features are the intense movement of the design and the vivid colours. An expressionistic atmospheres, along with an obvious mood for social critique, are prevalent in all the periods in the last thirty years. His plastic values are classically structures, and his contact with Dictatorship (1966 - 1970), “Epitaphs” (1971 - 1976), “Potraits” (1977 - 1987), “Theatre Scenes” (1988 - 1991). Professor of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Mytaras has exhibited in many of the world’s capitals and has participated in virtually every important Biennal.

Dimitris Yeros (b. 1948)
Was born in Greece in 1948. He was one of the first artists to present Performances, Body Art, Video Art, and Mail Art in Greece. He has had 52 individual exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions, Biennales and Triennales in many parts of the world.

He was a founder member of the 'a' Art Group (1961 - 1967), whose basic aim was to bring the general public of the country's urban centres closer to modern art. Later he was also a founder member of the 'Group for Communication and Education in Art' (1976 - 1981), which had similar aims. In the year of the restoration of democracy (1974), he was a member of the Board of Management of the State Scholarships Foundation. He was elected Rector at the School of Fιne Arts in 1979 and held the post until 1981.

He has been a member of the Board of the Athens National Theatre (1981-1983) and of the newly-established Inter-University Centre for the Recognition of Foreign Academic Qualifications. Since 1996, he has been a member of the Board of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank, and since 1997 has served on the Board of the Society for Studies in Modern Greek Culture.

He was President of the evaluation committee in the competition (2002 - 2003) for the decoration of the stations of the Athens Underground (Metro) with works by Greek artists.

Dora Oronti (b. 1940)
Born in Limassol, 1940. Studied interior design in Athens and graphic arts at Exeter College of Art and Design in England, on a scholarship from the Devon Country Council. Attended post-graduate classes (MA) at Pittsburgh University. Worked for many years in Secondary Schools as art teacher.

Efthimios Simeou (b. 1957)
Born in Famagusta, Cyprus. He studied ceramic art at the Technical School of Limassol and in 1977 he continued his studies in Greece.

Eleni Nikodemou (b. 1955)
Born in Alona 1955. Studied  in Athens and continued with painting and engraving at the Ecole Nationale Superierure des Beaux - Arts, Paris. Has exhibited her work in Cyprus and abroad: Greece, France, Sweden America etc

Elli Mitzi (1930 - 1997)
She was born in Larnaka. She studied painting and print making at the Academie des Bildnden Kuste in Vien. She had several solo exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad, as well as many participations in group exhibitions.

Elli Souyioultzoglou - Seraïdari (1899 - 1998)
(Greek: Έλλη Σουγιουλτζόγλου-Σεραϊδάρη) b.1899 - d.1998 (better known as Nelly's) is one the most celebrated Greek photographers of all time, and during the interwar period became one of the world's most celebrated female photographers. Her pictures of ancient Greek temples against sea and sky backgrounds, which were published by the first Greek ministries of tourism, shaped the first visual images of Greece in the Western mind.

She was born in Aidini, near Smyrna (now İzmir), Asia Minor, and after the 1922 expulsion of the ethnic Greeks of Asia Minor by the Turks following the Greco-Turkish war (1919 - 1922), she went to study photography in Germany under Hugo Erfurth and Franz Fiedler. In 1924 she came to Greece, where she adopted a nationalistic and conservative approach to her work.

At some point she was referred to as "the Greek Leni Riefenstahl" because of her collaboration with the 4th of August Regime (1936-1941), of which she was one of its most prolific photographers. As a Greek of the Diaspora, Nelly's view of Greece tended to be somewhat "idyllic", which matched the propaganda aims of the quasi-fascist regime, led by General Ioannis Metaxas. In fact, her work helped illustrating the idea of the racial continuity of the Greeks since Antiquity, which was within Metaxas' agenda.

In 1936 she photographed the Berlin Olympic Games, where she met Leni Riefenstahl, and accompanied her to Olympia. In 1939 she was commissioned the decoration of the interior of the Greek pavilion at the New York's World Fair, which she did with gigantic collages expressing the physical similarities between ancient and modern Greeks.

After the Greek defeat to the German Army in 1941 and the consequent end of the 4th of August regime, she left Greece for the United States, where she developed her talent in new disciplines such as advertising photography, photo-reportages. In the US she maintained links with powerful Greeks including shipowners Stavros Niarchos and Aristotle Onassis and developed contacts with the White House.

In 1985, Nelly's donated her photo archives and cameras to the Benaki Museum in Athens, while in 1987 she was presented with an honorary diploma and medal by the Hellenic Centre of Photography and the government. In 1993, she was awarded the Order of the Phoenix by the president of the Greek Republic. In 1996, the Athens Academy presented her with its Arts and Letters Award.

Nelly's died in Athens, Greece, on August 18, 1998.

Epaminondas Thomopoulos (1878 - 1974)
A Greek artist who studied drawing in Italy. He was elected a member of the Athens Academy and subsequently appointed president. Most of his works and drawings are related to nature. Many of these are preserved in the Patras city hall and the National Gallery of Greece. The city of Patras has devoted a section in the National Gallery of the city to him.

Fotos Hadjisoteriou (1919 - 2004)
Fotos was born in Amohostos. He studied law at the University of Beirut (1937 - 1939). He studied painting through visits to museums and arts galleries in Europe. He paints landscapes and scenes from the daily life of farmers, always combining the architectural subject matter with the human form. His painting is characterized by folk-like elements, form, simplicity and accentuation in graphic detail. The outlines are formulated with clarity and the colours are intense and clean.

Friedrich Paul Thumann (1834 - 1908)
Friedrich Paul Thumann, who was born at Tschaksdorf, in the Lausitz, in 1834, was originally intended for a scientific career, and studied with that purpose at the engineering school at Glogau. At the age of nineteen, however, he entered the Berlin Academy as an art student. In 1856 he settled in Dresden, where, until 1860, he remained as a pupil of Julius Hubner. He had now become known as a painter, both of portraits and religious compositions, which found favor. In 1860 he removed to Leipzig, the great German publishing centre, where as a draughtsman and illustrator for books and periodicals he acquired both a wide reputation and a great deal of money. This enabled him in 1863 to resume his study of painting, which he did under Professor Pauwels at Weimar. After travelling in Italy, France and England, he in 1866 became a professor at the Weimar Academy, which he exchanged six years later for the Academy at Dresden, and in 1875 for a similar post in Berlin, where he still remains. "The Sirens" is an extremely characteristic work from his brush, and gives a new view of a subject which has already been treated in "Modern Figure Painting" by different artists.

[NY Times January 28, 1975]

George Dergalis
George Dergalis, a World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War veteran, now resides in Wayland, Massachusetts. George was born in 1928 and grew up in Greece. A renowned artist, Georges love for art began at the age of five when he was given a paintbrush, a sheet of paper, and some watercolors and told to "shut up."
A draftee into the Greek Army during World War II, Dergalis was captured and sent to a Nazi prison camp, where he spent three years. After escaping from the camp with some of his inmates, George attended an art school in Italy. He was able to collect enough money to travel to the United States. He first had a custodial job in a hospital, and soon after was drafted into the Air Force. He spoke very minimal English at the time, and did not understand what was going on in the recruiting office, where he got into the line for the Air Force, and all of a sudden was off to his base. He served in the Air Transport Service, picking up wounded and ill soldiers.
George served as a combat artist in the Vietnam War. With this position, he had very high status, priority even over field colonels. George painted many of the battlefields. Following the wars, George has made many symbolic sculptures and paintings based on his experiences. His most recent work was the Wayland Veterans Memorial.

George Erotokritos (b. 1944)
Was born in Lambousa, near Kyrenia. He studied at Athens and London. When he finished his education he returned to Athens to work and at the same time to study restoration and wood carving.

George Korniotis (1912 - 1990)
Georgios Korniotis was born at Kornos village in 1912 and he started painting at the age of 73. He exhibits his works for the first time in 1986 at Lefkara festival. He had two one-man exhibitions in 1987 and 1988 and has exhibited in group exhibitions several times. His topics are inspired by habits and customs of Cyprus, the culture, the ‘Cyprus wedding’, landscapes, and portraits. He died in 1990.

George Kotsonis (b. 1940)
Born in Palaechori, 1940. Studied painting at Saint Martin's School of Art in London (1958) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (1960-1963). Continued and finished his studies at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Prague (1963 - 1967). In 1967 received his Diploma in painting and the title of Academic Painter. He is a member of the European artistic group "Europe 24". In 1993 he was honoured with the award of artistic contribution "Tefkros Anthias - Theodosis Pierides".

George Mavroides (1912 - 2003)
Born in Piraeus/Greece of Cypriot parents, He spent his childhood years in Larnaca.
He studied Law and Political Science at the University of Athens. In 1946 he joined the diplomatic service from which he resigned in 1959 when he was appointed professor at the School of Fine Arts, a position he held until 1982. He is a self-taught artist who begun to pain systematically at the end of WW2, experimenting with various techniques, such as oils, tempera, watercolor and encaustic art. During his stay in Paris (1950 - 52) he was able to follow closely contemporary visual trends. He had numerous individual exhibitions in Athens, New York and elsewhere. He has represented Greece in the Biennale of Sao Paolo (honorable mention), Alexandria and Venice.
He also applied himself to literature, publishing his own books. In 1995 he was honoured by the Academy of Athens with a distinction in Fine Arts and other awards.

George Pol Georgiou (1901 - 1972)
Was born on the 22^nd September 1901 in Famagusta, Cyprus. He was educated at the Pancyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia. On the death of his father, when he was 17, he was sent to study law at Middle Temple, London and returned after 13 years to take his place in his father’s cotton business and look after his shipping agencies and other enterprises. His education in Western Europe had been extensive and various. By 40 he had given up all other work and was a full time, self-taught painter, working with oils on wood. He had a short working life of only 25 years but that time covered Second World War, the Establishment of the State of Israel, the E.O.K.A. uprising which led to the end of empire in Cyprus and the emergence of an independent state. He married Trude Richly from Vienna, but had no children. In 1964 he laid down his brushes and he died on 2^nd August, 1972.

His paintings hang in major galleries around the world and in important private collections. His studio and paintings are trapped in occupied Famagusta and have not been seen since 1974.

George Skotinos (b. 1937)
Born in Limassol 1937. Studied at the National School of Drama in Greece (1961 - 1964). Studied filmmaking in New York at the Visual Arts and at movie subscription Group Schools (1964 - 1967). Scholarship from Ford Foundation for Painting (1976 - 1977).
Has shown his work in one-man exhibitions and Participated in many group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad.
Edinburgh 1971, Tel-Aviv 1973, Athens 1974, Vienna 1975, Moscow 1990, Hamburg 1991, New York 1966, Paris Biennale 1967, Alexandria Biennale 1968 (Honorary mention), Venice Biennale 1968, India Triennale 1969, 1982 (Gold medal), Sao Paulo Biennale 1969, London 1970.

Giannis Tsarouhis  (1910 - 1989)
He is one of the most inspired exponents of this movements. A student of K. Parthenis at the Athens School of Fine Arts, he also studied with F. Kontoglou and D. Pikionis, after which he goes to Paris in 1935, and produces his first major works at the end of the 30’s. The influences of Pompey’s frescoes, Fayoum or Byzantium, Theophilos and Karayozis, Renaissance and also Baroque as well as Matisse of Baroque work together within his art in a unique way, to give us pictures with man at their center. Figures which are sometimes realistic, sometimes idealized sometimes effusively decorated, and always with the unique stamp which makes the works of the great artists who have something important to say, stand out from the rest. These unique features are present in the three works displayed in Municipal Art Gallery, Two Friends (1938), Basketball Player (1949) and the Squadron Leader, created in the period 1950 - 1951. In all three, what strikes one most is the active role played by the masses of color, which prepare for the frontal treatment of the subject. Together with this, the way in which shapes and forms are set out on the canvas gives it an introverted dimension, in which are described the features of the faces. These, in accordance with the habit of the artist, are male figures rendered with characteristic realism, as can be seen mainly in the latter works. Here, the individual features of the figures are emphasized. The design in based on masses of color, with linear strikes to stress the outline. The resultant form confirms the power of the artist to express his thoughts and his ideological relationship with art itself, together with the inborn feeling and understanding he has for his native country. Tsarouhis does not reject anything out of hand, but uses everything which moves him as part of his work.

Giasoumis Georgiou (1924 - 1999)
Born in Vokolida 1924 and died in 1999 in Nicosia. He started painting in 1964 or 1967. Has shown his work in one-man exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions. Triennale Bratislava 1972, Antwerp “Cypriot Artists” 1973. His art inspired by habits and customs of Cyprus, the culture, the Cyprus wedding.

Giorgos Gounaropoulos (1889 - 1977)
He was born outside Greece, in Sozopoli Bulgaria. He came to Greece at the age of sixteen and after his studies goes to Paris, where later is going to return regularly, as his work is recognized late in Greece. After his first ventures in the direction of impressionism, he finally develops his own artistic style where the chromatic atmosphere functions as a mere suggestion and the figures (usually women) as symbols. In his works Portrait of Cybele, Archaic Figures, and Synthesis the artist bases his work on a timeless atmosphere which is created by the soft colors, to achieve the desired sublime quality in the female forms he portrays. he avoids exactness of details and in this general atmosphere tries to portray values of timelessness through his forms.

Giorgos Roilos (1867 - 1928)
Greek painter. Studied in München and Paris. Student of greek painters Gyzes and Lytras. He taught at the national École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Athens, Greece. Main representative of the 'München School' of greek painters, marked for its academic charachter.

Giorgos Sikeliotis (1917 - 1984)
Greek painter and engraver. Born in Smyrna in 1917, he graduated in 1939 from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASKT), where he was taught by Parthenis and Vikatos. His first solo exhibition was in 1954 in the lobby of To Vima. From then until his death in Athens in 1984, he took part in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including Ottawa, Rome, Toronto, Montreal, Alexandria, Helsinki and New York, where he had a solo exhibition in 1965 and was nominated for a Guggenheim award.

Works of Sikeliotis are to be seen in the National Gallery of Athens and the Municipal Art Gallery of Rhodes. Others are in New York, bought by the World House Gallery, and in many other private collections in Greece and abroad.

Giorgos Siountas  (b. 1937)
Born in Thessaloniki, 1937. He studied painting and stage design at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, London and Germany. Has shown his work in one-man exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus, England, Germany, France, Italy and U.S.A.

Giorgos Stathopoulos (b. 1944)
He was born on 16 April 1944 at Kallithea of Agrinio, Greece. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts - ASFA (1966 - 1971) painting under Yannis Moralis and Nikos Nikolaou, and sculpture under Yannis Pappas and Dimitris Kalamaras.

Stathopoulos became known as a painter of popular art that is fresh yet founded in tradition. He has a preference for an anthropocentric subject matter tinted with the Hellenic ideal.

Stathopoulos presented numerous personal exhibitions and took part in many group exhibitions. Apart from his main work, he also engaged with stage design, and illustrtated record covers, posters, books and utilitarian objects. Since 1996 he has engraved more than 200 works in copper and linoleum. Giorgos Stathopoulos currently lives and works in Athens.

Glyn Hughes (b. 1931)
Born in Wales, 1931. Studied at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire. In 1956 came to Cyprus to teach where, in 1960, founded the first gallery in Cyprus, the Apophasis Gallery, with Christoforos Savva. In 1971 created Synergy, which was a combination of conceptual and environmental art event, held annually until 1974.

Hambis Tsaggaris (b. 1947)
Born in Kondea, 1947. Took lessons in engraving in Athens in 1971 from A. Tassos. Studied graphic arts at the Sourikov State Institute in Moscow (1976 - 1982), and at the Florence School of Fine Arts in Italy (1972 - 1976). Was awarded M.A. in Graphic Art in 1982. Since 1987 has been working as a teacher of graphic arts in technical schools.

Helene Black (b. 1950)
Born in Cyprus in 1950. At an early age she moved to Australia. Studied fine arts at the University of Melbourne. She taught painting, photography and ceramic at the University and South Wales. Exhibited her work in Cyprus and abroad (Australia, England, Japan, New York).

Henry James Pidding
Painter, Still life painter, engraver. Born in 1797 in Cornwall - England, died on June 13^th, 1864 in Greenwich. Pupil of Agostino Aglio. Has  exhibited from 1824 at the Royal Academy and at the British Artists Society, he became member of the society in 1843. He painted humoristic characters which quickly became popular . The Leicester Museum keeps from him the “The Enthusiastics”.

Back in London now 25 years old, he began painting and in 1949 had his first exhibition. In 1957 he moved to Paris and participated in a show together with Enrico Baj, Jorn and Mihailovitch at Galerie Rive Gauche.

Collections include: Tate Gallery, London; Frissiras Museum, Greece; Nottingham City Museums and Galleries; Beaux Art Museum, Toulouse; Beaux Art Museum Nantes; Contemporary Art Society, London; Museum of 20th Century Art, Vienna; Kunst Museum, Randers, Denmark; Kunst Museum Silkeborg, Denmark; Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris.

John Corbidge (1935 - 2003)
Born in Sheffield of England in 1935. Studied at Sheffield College of Art and at the Slade School of London University. Spent many years in Italy. In 1959 visited Cyprus for the first time. He exhibited his work in Italy, France, Israel, Athens, Lebanon and Germany.

Ioannis Economou (1860 - 1931)
He studied painting at the School of Arts (1874 - 1880) under Nikiphoros Lytras. At the end of his studies he taught art technique at public schools. In his early works his interest was focused on genre scenes in which he adopted the style of Lytras. Later, following the trend of the times, he turned to the depiction of landscape and liberated himself from the influence of his teacher, and painted with great freedom. He made an important contribution to the modern art movement because his compositions.

Ioannis Kissonergis (1889 - 1963)
Born in Nicosia. Studied medicine at the University of Athens for three years which he abandoned for the sake of Art. During his stay in Athens collaborated with various newspapers as a cartoonist. Taught drawing at the Pancyprian Gymnasium and the English School Nicosia. In 1959 Kissonergis and his family emigrated to Johannesburg, S. Africa, where he continued to create secular and religious paintings until his death. His themes mainly consist of landscapes and traditional scenes of the urban and and rural life of Cyprus. He was the first Cypriot Artist to paint from nature and the first to master the watercolor technique. His work is characterised by a concentration of detail, refined lines and delicate forms of colours. 

Ioannis Kornaros (1745 - 1812)
The icon painter Ioannis Kornaros lived from 1745 to 1812. Unfortunately not much is known about his life. But from a manuscript of the icon painter Stefanos Nikolaïdis (1817 - 1907), we know that Kornaros worked in Crete and Cyprus plus in Sinai and perhaps also in Egypt.

In the period 1775 - 1790 we find Kornaros in Sinai, where he both painted his own icons and restored others' plus he contributed to the decoration of the church ceiling in the Agia Aikaterini monastery. Icons from this period also exist in Egypt, but it is uncertain if he has in fact been there himself.

Ioannis Papanelopoulos (b.)
Was born in Athens in 1963. He studied in Athens School of Fine Art from 1954 for 3 years under Moralis Giannis and Kefallino Gianis. He continued his studies (1960 - 1963) at the Vakalo School under Tetsi Panagiotis. His first one man show was in Athens in 1975. He has also been taking part in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad since 1969. His work is caracterized by a unique expresionistic brush in which man and the inviroment prevail. He now lives adn works in Athens.

Iosif Hadjikyriakos (b. 1979)
Was born in Larnaca, in 1979. Degree in Art, Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice and Art History in Venice - Ca'Foscari University. He shown his work in various exhibitions in Italy, Greece and Cyprus. Some of his paintings are exposed in the permanent collections of the National museum of Modern Art of Rome, The Gallery of the Makarios III Foundation, the Civil Gallery of Corfu. In 2004 he won the Marc de Montalembert Price and the next year he exposed in the 51th Venice Biennale.

Irene Iliopoulou (b. 1950)
Born in Greece.

Kate Stephanidou (1925 - 2012)
Born in Limassol. Studied at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Athens and at St. Martin ’s School of Art in London. Has exhibited her work in Cyprus and abroad - Greece, Egypt, Brazil, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria.

Kikis Patsalos (b. 1954)
Ηe was born in Birmingham, England. His parents were Cypriots from Kato Dris. He studied sculpture at ''Sir John Cass College of Art'' in London.

Kikos Lanitis (b. 1948)
Kikos Lanitis was born in Limassol, Cyprus but grew up and studied in London during the decade of the 60s. Lanitis has an interest in experimenting with original techniques and various every day materials. A prolific artist who constantly explores and experiments creating a puzzle of coloured planes and compositions. The characteristics of Lanitis’ work are the simple geometrical forms reflected through colour explosions and expanding in such a way as to make the spectator experience the sensation of stepping beyond time and space.

Kornilios Papadimosthenis (b. 1950)
Kornilios Papadimosthenis was born in Athens in 1950. He studied architecture and fine arts in Florence and the art of mosaics in Ravenna (1972 - 1982). He continued his studies in Athens with teachers such as Constantinos Xynopoulos and Yiannis Kolefas. He has presented his work in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad. His works are in private collections in Greece and abroad.

Kostis Georgiou (b. 1956)
Born in Thessalonica, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1982-1986) with Dimitris Mitaras and Dimosthenis Kokinidis, as well as at the Royal College of Fine Arts, London (1985-1986) with  Peter de Francia.  He had his first one-man exhibition in Thessalonica (1974).  Other solo and group shows followed in Greece and abroad.  He has taught painting and stage scenery at the "L.Stavrakos" Cinematographic School (1988-1991) and designed stage scenery for many performances of the Greek theatre and television (1982-1988).  He has been awarded with the First Prize of the ΧΧ International Premio di Sulmona and with special prizes at the Osaka Triennale 93 and the Young European Artists in Brussels (1990 and 1992).  His work is placed in the area of abstract expressionism.  He lives and works in Athens.

Kyriakos Michael Kashialos (b. 1931)
Kyriakos Mih. Kassialos was born in the occupied Assia in 1931. He is the youngest son of the naive painter Michail Hr. Kassialos. He graduated from the primary school of his village and dealt with various professions (Carpenter, Clearing Agent, Ceramist).
He began to paint in 1967 after watching the artistic activity of his father and accompanying him in his various exhibitions. He has also taken part in many group-exhibitions. His work can be found in private collections, in the Pieridis Institution, the Ethnographic Museum of Avgorou, the Pieridis Art gallery in Athens etc.

Lefteris Economou (1930 - 2007)
Born in Frenaros, 1930. Studied at St. Martin’s School of Art (1949 - 1950) and Sir John Cass College (1950 - 1954) in London. Trained at Goldsmith’s School of Art London University (1954 - 1955). In 1953 he received the N. D. D. with painting as special subject.

Lefteris Olympios (b. 1953)
Lefteris Olympios was born in Limassol, in 1953. He studied Graphic Arts at Doxiadis School in Athens (1973 - 1976), he continued with studies in painting, hagiography, fresco and mosaic at the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1978 - 1984), with D. Mytaras, P. Tetsis, K. Xynopoulos, G. Kolefas; finally, he studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague (1984 - 1986). He has exhibited in several solo and group shows in Cyprus as well as abroad - including, Greece, Holland, Cairo Biennale 1988, Venice Biennale 1997.

Loizos Sergiou
He was born in Ayia Napa in 1951. He studied painting in the Faculty of Fine Art in Florence Italy (1972 - 1976).

Loukia Nicolaidou
Born in Limassol in 1909. Upon high-school graduation she enrolled at ABC School in Paris receiving painting lessons by correspondence for a year.  In 1929 she became the first Cypriot woman to study abroad, at the Colarossi Academy in Paris for a year. She then was accepted at the Ecole nationale Superieure des Bauex-Arts, at the famous atelier of prof Loucien Simon.  Upon her graduation she returned to Cyprus and had her first personal exhibition in April 1933 at the Papdopoulos Mansion, Nicosia, but had a poor response from the Cyprus public.  In 1937 she left Cyprus for London, where her older sister had settled.  In 1939 she participated in a group exhibition with well known artists and her work made quite an impression.  After her marriage to shipowner Ioannis Vassiliou she gradualy witdrew from artistic activities.

Manolis Charos (b. 1960)
Born on the island of Kithira in 1960.
Manolis Charos studied art in Paris at the Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts (Diploma in Engraving and Painting with honors). He did his graduate work at the Ecole National Superieur des Arts Decoratifs (Visual Communication) and was awarded the National Prize in France, the “Prix des Fondations”, in lithography.

Maria Tourou
Maria Tourou was born in Famagusta. She studied painting, drawing and lithography in London, Italy and the United States of America. (Hammersmith School of Art and Building, London 1960-1966, Positano Art Workshop, Italy 1962-1963. Graphic Arts in Marylebone Art Institute, London 1966, at Campden Art Institute 1973 and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington 1983).

Marios Loizides (1928 - 1989)
Born 1928 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Studied painting and lithography at St Martin's School of Art, London (1951-4), together with courses in stage and costume design. Worked in London for a number of years as a decorator and designer. Lived on Ydra from 1961 until his death in 1989, working exclusively as a painter. Held more than 10 solo exhibitions, in London, Montreal, Brussels, Athens, Nicosia, and elsewhere. Took part in a number of group exhibitions, most notably the Alexandria Biennale (1968).
Loizidis's work falls into the category of geometrical abstract art. His aim was to present not the world of the senses but the deeper immanent unity of the universe, hence his visionary approach to art.

Marios Prassinos (1916-1985) was a Greek artist and illustrator.

He was born in Istanbul (Constantinople) on 30 July 1916, son of Victorine and Lysandre Prassinos, and moved to France with his family in 1922. His sister Gisèle Prassinos (born 1920) is a surrealist writer.

His first exhibition took place in 1938 at the Galerie Pierre Vorms. That same year he married Yolande Borelly. His daughter Catherine Prassinos was born in 1946.

During the period 1942 to 1950 he met Raymond Queneau and Albert Camus and produced work for Editions Gallimard.

He died on 23 October 1985.

Marlen Karletidou
Born in 1961 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Studied painting at the Athens University, School of Fine Arts in Greece, between the years 1979 - 1985.
Lives and works in Cyprus. Has exhibited her work in solo shows in Cyprus and participated in group exhibitions both in Cyprus and abroad (Greece, France, Switzerland, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, China, U.S.A.). Was awarded a prize in drawing at the 18th Biennale of Alexandria, Egypt in 1994.

Max Friedrich Rabes (German, 1868-1944)
Although born in Germany, Max Friedrich Rabes spent very little time in his native country and instead spent his career scouring the globe, exploring through Africa, Asia, and Europe. Studying under the tutelage of Paul Graeb, son of the celebrated architectural and decorative painter Karl Graeb, Rabes quickly formed a solid foundation of skills and techniques. In order to fund his love of travel and obsession with the Orient, Rabes painted stage sets for theaters, created murals and decorated dining rooms for Italian bourgeoisie.

Each voyage to the Orient involved a prolonged stay in Cairo. The scene depicted here was painted during one of Rabes many trips to Egypt and captures the magic of the Orient that many artists and their patrons found so fascinating. Here, Rabes depicts the colorful and vibrant energy of a souk, or marketplace, in Egypt. One can see the lush background, crowds of people, and even donkeys lining the streets on a typical day at the market.

Meropi Pari Preka
Meropi Preka was born on 13 March 1934 in Athens, Greece. She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1958) under Andreas Georgiadis; Yannis Moralis; Pavlos Mylonas; and Pantelis Prevelakis. In 1963 a scholarship enabled her to study the techinique of stained glass at the École Supérieure Nationale des Métiers d'Arts, in Paris, under M. Frézil and René Giroux.

Michalis Makroulakis (b. 1940)
Born at Hermoupolis on the Island of Syros, Michalis Makroulakis settled in Athens (1957) where he studied at the Athenian Technological Institute (1958 - 1964) stage scenery and costume design with Spiros Vassiliou, Tassos, Costas Plakotaris, Antonis Polykandriotis a.o., painting with Yannis Tsarouchis and design with Thanassis Apartis.  From 1963 to 1966 he worked as stage scenery designer in several theatres in Athens.  In 1971 he settled in Teheran (Iran), where he stayed until 1978.  He had his first one-man exhibition in Athens (1969).  Other solo and group shows followed in Greece and abroad.  His work belongs to the area of hyperrealism.  He lives and works in Athens.

Michalis Manousakis (b. 1953)
He was born in Hania, Greece in 1953. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts with the Professor D. Kokkinidis. He has presented his work in 24 personal exhibitions and has participated in many important group exhibitions. He has represented Greece in International Art Exhibitions where he has been awarded distinctions and prizes for his work. His works can be found at “Olivepress - Art Factory” and in important public and private collections in Greece and abroad. He has been Assistant Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts since 2004. He lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Michael Kashalos (1885 - 1974)
Born in Assia, 1885. Self-taught. Attended a few icon-painting classes at Elementary School given by the teacher and iconographer Kyriacos Pierides. Worked as shoe-maker until the Second World War and then turned to mirror decoration and painting on glass. He also made decorative clay and plaster objects and copies of ancient finds. Around 1957 he took up painting and gradually devoted himself entirely to it. In August 1974 was seriously wounded by the Turkish Army which invaded his village and died later, on 31 of August, as a refugee in Larnaca. Is considered as the father of contemporary Cypriot Naive art. His work can be found at the State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art, the Cyprus Folk Art Museum, the Cultural Centre of Popular Bank and in private collections.

Michael Papageorgiou (Doris) (1896 - 1987)
Born in Athens, 1896 and died 1987, studied painting in Paris. Has shown his work in one-man exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions: Athens, Paris, Biennale Venice etc.

Mikis Nicodemou
Mikis Nicodemou was born in 1941 in Peristeronopigi. He took his first painting lessons at the Pedagogical Academy (1959 - 61) from the painter Andreas Chrysochos. In 1961-1963 he served as a teacher in Larnaca - at Astiki Sholi Kalogera. At the same time he continued to paint in Nicosia, where he always lived, and to frequent Gallery Apophasis - the studio of Christoforos Savva - from whom he was also influenced. In 1963, before he left Cyprus to study in France on a French government scholarship, Savva wrote about his new work: “I appreciate his sincere searches within the contemporary current which are characterized by balanced composition, chromatic virtue and quality, and a strong dynamism.”

Mikis Phinikarides (1940 - 2005)
Born in Nicosia, 1940. Studied painting at the Higher School of Fine Arts and the Free Institute of Fine Art in Athens. During the years 1965 - 1972 taught art in Secondary Schools in Cyprus, while in parallel, worked on stage design and graphics for Cypriot television. In 1973 studied on a scholarship, graphic arts and stage design for television at the Thomson Foundation T.V. College in Glasgow.

Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos (1889 - 1957) studied theology in Rizareio Academy and painting in Munich Academy. He was director and professor of Athens School of Fine Arts, deputy manager of Byzantine Museum and National Art gallery and Professional Academy of Piraeus.

Nikolaos Santorineos (1889 - 1966)

Nikos Frantzolas (b. 1962)
Born in Athens in 1962. His love for art, and particularly of painting, manifested himself at an early age. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts (1982-1987) with first-class honours in painting and received a scholar-ship from the State Scholarship Foundation to study stage design. Works by Frantzolas are to be found in private and public collections in Greece and abroad, and in the Citibank Private Bank Collection in London, with Eurobank, in the Vorres Museum, and in the "House of the Actor".
He lives and works in Athens.

Nikos Kouroussis was born in Mitsero, 1937. Studied in London at St. Marin’s School of Art (1960-1961) and at Hornsey College of Art (1961-1964). Attended a course on stage design in England in 1977 (on a scholarship from the British Council) and made research and gave lectures in U.S.A. (on a Fulbright scholarship) in 1986. Has given a series of lectures on art at Pratt  University in New York in 1976 and 1988 as guest artist, as well as at South Dacota  State University. Worked as stage  and costume  designer in Cyprus  and abroad.

Nikos Nikolaides (1884 - 1956)
Nikos Nikolaides was born in Cyprus in 1884 He died at the age of 72 in Cairo (1956). Despite the fact that he travelled widely in the Middle East and in Europe, he spent most of his lifetime in Cyprus, Athens, Alexandria and Cairo. Self-taught in every aspect of his life and times Nikolaides rose out as a multi-faceted personality, known to the intellectual circles of the start of the 20th century. His intellectual heritage is great. It comprises of priceless theatre plays, works of the plastic arts and of authorship.

Nikos Stefanou (b. 1933)
From a very young age Nikos Stefanou started working as a set designer in theatres overseas (England, France, Austria), as well as for many of the State companies in Greece. Alongside his work in set design, he also continued with his painting and in the nineteen sixties he created the renowned Atelier in Kallithea with Alecos Fasianos and Vassilis Sperantzas.

Nitsa Hadjigeorghiou (b. 1950)
Born in Famagusta, 1950. Studied painting at the Higher of Fine Athens (1969 - 1974), in the workshop of Yiannis Moralis on scholarship from the Foundation of State Scholarships. She also studied the art of portable icons and fresco painting in the workshop of Xinopoulos (classes of the Higher School of Fine Arts), and attended ceramic and engraving classes. Since 1950 has been working in Secondary Schools as an art teacher.

Opy Sarpaki Zouni (1941 - 2009)
Born in Cairo. Her family roots originate in Crete and Santorini.

STUDIES
Cairo: Painting, studio Zorian, 1959 - 62 • Ceramics, American College, 1960 - 62 • Photography, 1959 - 60.
Athens, School of Fine Arts: Painting, Morali's studio, 1963-68 • Ceramics, 1963-65 • Stage-designing, 1967 - 69.

Panagiotis Larkos
He was born in Lysi in 1956. In 1978 and after a scholarship, he studied in Russia. Until 1985 he was studing in the Academy of Five Arts of Repin and Moscow where he graduated with M.A. in painting. He won a medal of Honour for his participation in the 2nd Trianale of Art in Poland.

Panos Fidakis (1956 - 2003)
Panos Fidakis was born in Aegion in 1956.
He is one of the most significant representatives of the eighties generation, left his mark on Greek painting thanks to the great sensitivity of his work, its unique expressive economy as well as an exquisite mastery of design.
In the epicentre of his artistic creation always stood the human figure, lost in existential dead ends, trying to face the fears and problems of everyday reality. Panos Fidakis always looked at him with tenderness and affection, expressing his sympathy through a world painted with realism characterized by the constant interplay between light and space but seen with a genuinely idealistic gaze.

Pavlos was born at Filiatra (Peloponnise) in 1930. In 1947 he moves to Athens and in 1949 he enters the School of Fine Arts of Athens from which he graduates in 1953. In 1954, thanks to a scholarship from the French state, Pavlos goes to Paris and spends his time drawing at the Academie Grande Chaumière while, at the same time, he visits many museums and galleries in Paris and Europe.
 

He returns to Athens in 1955 and works in the fields of theatre and advertising. In 1958 he wins a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece for a three-year stay in Paris. It is at this time that he gets acquainted with the New Realists set up by Pierre Restany and he also gets to know Giacometti, Calder, César, Dubuffet and others.

He gives up painting and starts cutting up magazines and posters creating works with fine machine cut strips of paper (affiches massicotés). He exhibits his first work in 1963 at the Salon des Realités Nouvelles where Pierre Restany noted the neo-realistic character of his works.

Pavlos Samios. Born 1948 in Athens. Studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Nikolaou and Moralis. Has held more than 20 solo exhibitions in various cities in Greece and in Paris. Has participated in more than 15 group exhibitions, most of them in France. In 2002 the Foundation for Hellenic Culture in New York held a retrospective exhibition of his work.
Samios's career began in the late 1970s with the series Nudes and Night cafes. His removal to Paris in 1978 meant that his portrayals of cafe life were now set in the French capital.
He has experimented throughout his career with a variety of materials and techniques, including fresco and encaustic, and depicted scenes from a number of human activities, occupational or not, dramatic or day-to-day. His personal experiences influence his subject matter and style. The emotional tension of the figures in his works plays a leading role. Portraits, couples, and still lifes are rendered realistically, but as if through a surrealist prism, forming unnatural and multiple angles of vision on the same painted surface and isolating details of objects and persons in fragmented form. The figures usually move in a gently familiar, everyday ambience, which seems to be located somewhere beyond conventional time.

Pericles Spiridonovich Ksidias (1872 - 1942)
He studied at the Odessa Academy of  Fine Arts (1889 - 1893).
In 1891 he received the second and the first silver medal in 1897 awarded the title of the artist's etching "Portrait AF Kokorinova. In 1906 he received the title of academician. He worked in the Expedition of storing government securities, participated in engraving images on banknotes, postage stamps.

Renos Loizou
Renos Loizou was born in Cyprus. He lives and works in his adoptive town of Cambridge, where he has permanent exhibitions in numerous Cambridge college collections, as well as at the famous Jim Ede Collection at Kettles Yard where he had a one man show in 1983. Since 1984, he has been closely associated with the Christopher Hull Gallery, and his work has frequently been exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Rhea Bailey (b. 1946) 
Rhea Bailey is “Deputy Director General of IBC Cambridge in Europe” and has a BA honours in Art and Design
from the Liverpool College of Art, U.K. She’s had 28 solo exhibitions in Cyprus, UK, USA, Greece, Spain, Monaco, France, Bulgaria, Jordan, Tunisia, Greece, Ireland and Italy.

Rinos Stefani (b. 1958)
Rinos is a Cypriot visual artist who lives and works in Paphos. Important series of his painting work are the Lovers, Acrobats, Dancers, Planters, Fountains, Amacayacu, etc. He has showed his work in Cyprus, England, Spain, Greece, Germany, Bulgaria, Egypt, Russia, China, Kuwait, Colombia, etc. He has established "Praxis - Happenings".

Roger Tourte (1903 - 1972)

Sarantis Karavouzis (b. 1938)
Born 1938 in Athens. Studied painting at the Athens Academy of Fine Arts (1958 - 63), under Moralis. Studied Greek art while travelling. Continued his studies in Paris with a French government scholarship. Showed his work in more than 20 solo exhibitions in various cities in Greece and in Paris. Took part in numerous group exhibitions and international events, including: Panhellenic exhibitions (1965, 1967, 1975), Sao Paulo Biennale (1979), Engraving Biennale (Baden-Baden, 1981). Has also worked in miniature sculpture and stage design. Received the Drouant-Cartier award 1984.
Karavouzis's preferred subjects are still lifes and mysterious exteriors and interiors. The structure of his works is clear, spare, and solid. The influence of Morandi's style and of pittura metafisica is selectively apparent in his compositions. The illusion of real space and time is dispensed with and replaced by visual comments on the meaning of past and present, the historical moment, and the presence and absence of simple objects.

Sergis Sergiou (b. 1948)
Sergis was born in Paralimni in 1948. He studied art at the Athens School of Fine Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He has 22 solo exhibitions in his career. His works are included in a number of public and private collections in Cyprus and abroad. He lives and works in Paralimni. 

Solomos Frangoulides  (1902 - 1981)
Born in Pano Zodia in 1902. He studied at the Higher School of Fine Arts, Athens (1924-1930) under Professors G. Iacovides, N. Lytras, Sp. Vikatos, G. Roilos and P. Mathiopoulos. He lived in Athens until 1932. He returned to Cyprus for two years and in 1934 went back to Athens, where he worked as a designer. From 1947, until his death in 1981, he lived in Cyprus. He worked on a Byzantine-Italian type of icon-painting, and painted portable icons for various churches in Cyprus. He also wrote art reviews in newspapers and magazines.

He showed his work in one-man exhibitions (1936, Athens, Parnassos; 1953, Famagusta, Constantia Hotel; 1966, Nicosia, “Pnevmatiki Stegi”; 1972, London, Cumberland Hotel, 1974, Nicosia, Argo Gallery; 1976, Athens, Skopia Gallery; 1977, Nicosia, Zygos Gallery; 1986, Nicosia, Gloria Gallery, retrospective posthoumous exhibition).

He participated in many group exhibitions (1932, Pancyprian exhbition; 1933, 1940, 1941, Panhellenic Exhibition; 1960, Platres “The Golden Nightingale”; 1961, Paris, Salon d’ Art Moderne; 1970, London, Edinburg, Common-wealth institute, “Exhibition of Cypriot Art”; 1972, Foggia, Italy, Biennale d’ Arte Sacra).

Distinctions: Silver Metal at Biennale D’ Arte Sacra at Foggia, Italy, 1972.

Spiros Vasiliou  (1902 - 1985)
Spyros Vassiliou was born in Galaxidi in 1903, the year of birth entered on his identity card however reads 1902.
Thanks to a modest scholarship of short duration granted by the elders of his birthplace, Spyros Vassiliou came to Athens to study painting at the School of Fine Arts. His first teacher at the school (1921 - 23) was Alexandros Kaloudes. The young student was discontented with the sterile teaching methods and the mandatory discipline with charcoal and pencil. He was the instigator, with others, of a movement for revitalizing the school, resulting in the election of Nikolaos Lytras and the institution of workshops.

The lively band of “firebrands” enrolled in Lytras’ workshop (1923 - 26), under whose guidance they were initiated “into the principles of the Impressionists and the values of pure colour”. At about this point Spyros Vassiliou’s fertile artistic career took wing, characterized by dedication to and promotion of the individualistic nature of a national art, and the intent to converge with contemporary artistic trends while drawing on the precepts of Greek heritage.

On graduating from the School in 1926, Vassiliou exhibited in the “Foyer” of the Athens Municipal Theatre, together with P. Rengos, S. Kokkinos and A. Polykandriotis.

Spyridon Skarvelli (1868 - 1942)
Scarvelli was trained in Architecture at the State Industrial School of Trieste. He devoted his life to interpreting in watercolor the landscape and monuments of Egypt, Venice, Italy and Greece.

Stass Paraskos (b. 1933)
Paraskos was born in Anaphotia, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus in 1933, the son of a shepherd farmer. He went to England in 1953 and became a cook in his brother's restaurant in the city of Leeds. This was a popular haunt of the local art students who encouraged Paraskos to enroll for classes at Leeds College of Art. Despite not having the usual entry qualifications, Paraskos was spotted by the college's inspirational Head of Fine Art, Harry Thubron, who made certain Paraskos was accepted.
In 1966 Paraskos was involved in a notorious court case in which it was alleged he displayed paintings that were 'lewd and obscene', in contravention of the Vagrancy Act of 1823. The court case was one of a number of important legal challenges to the freedom of the arts in the 1960s and 70s, starting with the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960, and ending with the OZ magazine trial in 1971. Despite luminaries of the art world speaking in Paraskos' defense, including Sir Herbert Read and Norbert Lynton, and messages of support from Britain's Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, Paraskos lost the trial and was fined five pounds.
After this Paraskos started teaching at Leeds College of Art, and later at Leicester polytechnic, before becoming a Lecturer in Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art. When Canterbury College of Art became Kent Institute of Art & Design, he was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and then Head of Painting, before returning to Cyprus to run the Cyprus College of Art on a full-time basis.
Paraskos has exhibited widely, including in Cyprus, Britain, Greece, the United States, Brazil, India, Denmark and elsewhere, and in 2003 was the subject of a book by the distinguished art historian Norbert Lynton, published by the Orange Press.

Stavros Papapanagiotou (1885 - 1955)
Aghialos Anatoliki Romilia, 1885 - Athens, 1955.

Stelios Votsis (b. 1929)
Stelios Votsis was born in Larnaca in 1929. He studied at the Saint Martin’s School of Arts, Sir John Cass College and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1955 from the Slade School of Arts of the University of London.

Stella Michaelidou (b. 1940)
Born in Limassol. Studied at the Athenian Technological Institute and continued with painting at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris. Has exhibited her work in Cyprus and abroad (Greece, Yugoslavia, Germany, Hungary, Monaco, Iraq, Australia.

Susan Kerr
Susan Kerr was born in London UK 1943. Studied fine arts at Bath Academy of Art, UK, specialising in painting. Awarded the National Diploma in 1965 and Art Teacher’s Diploma in 1966. Travelled in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. In 1966, settled in Bellapais, Cyprus. Lived and worked in Bellapais where, with husband Costas Joachim, established their own Studio & Gallery until 1974. After the war she lived and worked in London and Athens with Joachim and returned to Nicosia Cyprus in 1977. Taught Art at the American International School in Cyprus from 1987, Head of Art Department until 1998, then part-time 2001-2008. Susan Kerr’s first solo exhibition was at the Cyprus Hilton in 1969 and she has subsequently held eleven more solo exhibitions, including two in Berlin and Munich. Susan participated in the 6^th International Biennale of Florence 2007.

Sylvia Woodcock
Sylvia Woodcock was born in Scotland, studied painting at Camberwell School of Art and moved to Cyprus where she lives and has her studio. Sylvia's work is very unique in the way she expresses herself with such an ease;  her line and composition being very strong and at the same time creating a euphoria and freshness through her rich colour scheme. Her subject matters derive from her environment around the countryside, the local festivities, customs and traditions of Cyprus, village weddings, baptisms, funerals etc. She exhibited her work in London, Scotland, Cyprus the Emirates. Her work can be found in many private and public collections.

Takis Frangoudes (1901 - 1978)
Born in Limassol. And died in Athens. Attended painting classes at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Athens under the professors C. Iacovides and B. Bocatsiambis. Wrote art reviews and art history articles. Exhibited his work in Cyprus and abroad (Greece, England).

Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Born in 1915 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Terry Frost First began to paint as a prisoner of war. Returning to England, he received an ex-serviceman’s grant and attended Camberwell School of Art, London from 1947 to 1950. He went on to teach at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham Court from 1952, and was the Gregory Fellow at Leeds University from 1954 to 1956, teaching at Leeds School of Art from 1956 to 1957. He was made Artist in Residence at the Fine Art Department of Newcastle University in 1964, became a full time lecturer at the Department of Fine Art, Reading University 1956, and went on to become Professor of Painting at University of Reading from 1977 to 1981. Terry Frost was elected Royal Academician in 1992 and received a knighthood in 1998. Sir Terry Frost died on 1st September 2003.

Thalia Flora Karavia (1871 - 1960)
Thalia Flora-Karavia was born in Siatista in 1871. After her studies with a scholarship from 1883 to 1888 in the Zappeion girls' School of Constantinople, she worked with Nikolaos Gyzis and Georgios Iakovidis in Munich from 1895 to 1898. Given the female sex was unable to join the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Thus she attended courses of design and painting to a private school. In 1898 she came to Constantinople where she lived and worked. On the mainwhile she was traveling. In 1940 she came to Greece where she spent the rest of her life. She died in Athens in 1960.

Theodoulos Gregoriou (b. 1956)
Born in Malounta, 1956. Studied Art at the Institute de Arte Plastice  «Ν. Grigorescu»  Βucharest on a UNESCO scholarship (1976 - 1981). Won the  ‘Prix Matise’ scholarship of the French Embassy in Cyprus (1985). Continued his studies on a scholarship from the French Government and worked at the Cite International des Arts and the School of Fine Arts in Paris (1986 - 1987) Lives and works in Cyprus and Paris.

Theodoulos Theodoulou (1947 - 2008)
He was born in Famagusta 1947 and died in Nicosia 2008.
1971 - 76 Degree in Sculpture with Honours, School of Fine Arts, Athens.
1978 Post graduate Degree in Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome. He has undertaken major projects such as relief, statues and busts for public spaces all over Cyprus.

Thodoros Pantaleon (b. 1945)
Born in Athens, Thodoros Pantaleon studied graphic arts at the Athens Technological Institute (Doxiadis School) and painting with Ilias Dekoulakos.  He had his first solo exhibition in Athens (1976), having participated to group shows already since 1963.  Other one-man and group exhibitions followed both in Greece and abroad.  He was awarded with the 1st Prize at the Cultural Group of Athens Exhibition (1963) and the 5th Pan-Hellenic Exhibition for Young Artists (1973).  His work is clearly surrealistic and shows a distinct personal style.  He lives and works in Athens.

Thraki Rossidou Jones (1920 - 2007)
Famagusta, 1920 - Paphos, 2007.
1988 Exhibition in London, 1989 May Represented Cyprus at the Non-Allied countries in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, November 1989 Exhibition at the State Gallery in Coracica, Yugoslavia. 1991 in Tours (France) with the Cultural Dept and Paris the same year (privately). 1993 Thraki organised Plein Oui for Cypriot Artists at Omodos. 1994 Thraki organised Plein Oui for well known Cypriot Artists to paint Platres at Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. 1994 Represented Cyprus at the Bratislava in August. 1994 October Exhibition at the Cyprus General Consolate in New York, U.S.A. 1995 March Exhibition at the Jagobia Museum of Naire Art in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, June 1995 Thraki is awarded the Grand Prix at the VII Bienalle at the Jagobia Museum. 1996 February - March. Exhibition at the Museum International de arte Naif do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro. 1996 October Exhibition at the House of Friendship in Moscow.  

Tilemahos Kanthos (1910 - 1993)
Born in Alona, 1910. Studied at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Athens (1929 - 1932 and 1934 - 1938) under Umberto Argyro, DemetriosBiskinis, Spyros Vikatos (drawing and painting) and Yiannis Kefallinos (engraving) works as Art teacher ath the Famagusta Gymnasium (1942 - 1944) and at the Pancyprian Cymnasium (1950 - 1969). Was also involved in stage design. In 1950 travelled to London and to other European cities, where he stayed for six months and renewed his contact with art. He later repeated his travels abroad 1964 he was the pioneer for the establishment of the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts. From 1969 until 1975 was a member of the Educational Service Commission of the Ministry of Education. Developed wider cultural activities and was many time member of art committees of the Ministry of Education and other government department.
Has shown his work in one-man exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad.

Tristram James Ellis
He was born in 1844 in Great Malvern, England and died in 1922. He studied under Bonnat in 1887 and was an associate member of the Royal Society.

Umit Unatci
Born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1960, Ümit İnatçı's artistic talents was first discovered at school by his arts teacher, painter Ali Atakan.
In 1978, he went to London for his higher education in arts, which landed him in Italy. In 1984, he finished the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts.

The artist won many awards and praises for his painting, photography and graphics design works. İnatçı also participated in many exhibitions in Cyprus, United Kingdom, and Italy.

Xanthos Hadjisoteriou  (1920 - 2003)
Born in Famagusta 1920 and died in Limassol 2003. Studied painting at the Central School of Arts and crafts in London. Has shown his work in one-man and group exhibitons in Cyprus and abroad 5th Biennale Alexandria.

Varnavas Varnava was born in Kythrea. He studied at the Thesaloniki School of Fine Arts, Greece.

Vasilis Kirkos
Born in Florina, Greece. Studied painting, engraving and icon art at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1966 - 1975)

Vasilis Sperantzas (b. 1938)
Vasilis Sperantzas was born in Athens in 1938. From 1956 until 1962 he studied painting and engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris. In 1969 he went to London, where he studied chalcography in various Art Academies od the town. Vassilis Sperantzas is a memner of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece and of Art Chamber of Greece. He first showd his work in 1960, with his participation in the group show of the "Panelinion", while his forst one-man show was in "Astor" Gallery in Athens in 1966. Since then there have been more than twenty one-man shows in Greece and abroad, while the number of group shows is more than fifty, in and out of Greece. Works of Vassili Spernatza belong to public collections, likewise in the National Gallery of Greece, the Alexander Soutzou Museum, the Averof Gallery, the Vorre Museum, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, in private collections in Greece and abroad etc.

Vasilis Vryonides (1883-1958)
Born in Limassol. Took lessons in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and at the Academies de la Grande Chaumiere and Colarossi in Paris. His work has shown in Cyprus.

Vasilis Zenetzis (b. 1935)
Born in Eraklio Kritis. 1935. Has shown his work in one-man exhibitions Parnassos 1977, Eraklio 1980, Karavel Gallery 1980 etc,  Panhellenic Exhibition 1973.

Vasilios Germenis (1896 - 1966)
 

Victor Ioannides (1903 - 1984)
Born in Limassol, he was a student at the Limassol Gymnasium (1915 -1918 and the American Academy in Larnaca (1918 - 19). He continued his studies at the School of Arts of the Athens Polytechnic (1923 - 29). His teachers were G. iacovides, Sp. Vikatos and N. Lytras. During his studies he worked as a cartoonist for various greek newspapers and as an illustrator for the Great Hellenic Encyclopedia.

In 1930 he returned to Cyprus. He taught Art at the Larnaca Lyceum (1942 - 48) and the Lanition Gymnasium in Limassol (1948 - 1966). In 1936 he co-founded the firts advertising and interior decoration workshop in Cyprus «The Atelier», together with George Fasouliotis, with whom he also published the satirical newspaper «To Gelio». He participated in numerous group exhibitions in Cyprus, Egypt, Greece and elsewhere.

In 1962 he received first prize in the Exhibition of Flower Painting in Limassol and in 1984 was awarded the gold medal of the Limassol Town.

Yannis Gaitis
Famous for his anonymous men depicting the uniformity and sterility of mass living, was born in Athens in 1923 and has had a studio in Paris for the last 26 years of his life. His work was introduced in the United States in 1964 at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. Since then, his blank-faced, look-alike figures have stood at attention in exhibitions both in America and abroad, including the Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Salon de Mai, Paris; Biennale, Sao Paulo; Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade; Musée d’Art Moderne de Skopie, Yugoslavia; Des Centre Cultural des Beaux Arts, Fernand, France and Municipalité de Nikea, Athens.

Yiannis Spyropoulos
Spyropoulos was born in Pylos of Messenia. In 1930 he was accepted at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Eight years later the Academy of Athens rewards Spyropoulos with the first prize and the opportunity to study in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During his studies he was taught by Charles-François-Prosper Guérin.

Yiannis Tsarouhis (1910). A student of K. Parthenis at the Athens School of Fine Arts, he also studied with F. Kontoglou and D. Pikionis, after which he goes to Paris in 1935, and produces his first major works at the end of the 30’s. The influences of Pompey’s frescoes, Fayoum or Byzantium, Theophilos and Karayozis, Renaissance and also Baroque as well as Matisse of Baroque work together within his art in a unique way, to give us pictures with man at their center. Figures which are sometimes realistic, sometimes idealized sometimes effusively decorated, and always with the unique stamp which makes the works of the great artists who have something important to say, stand out from the rest. These unique features are present in the three works displayed in Municipal Art Gallery, Two Friends (1938), Basketball Player (1949) and the Squadron Leader, created in the period 1950-51. In all three, what strikes one most is the active role played by the masses of color, which prepare for the frontal treatment of the subject. Together with this, the way in which shapes and forms are set out on the canvas gives it an introverted dimension, in which are described the features of the faces. These, in accordance with the habit of the artist, are male figures rendered with characteristic realism, as can be seen mainly in the latter works. Here, the individual features of the figures are emphasized. The design in based on masses of color, with linear strikes to stress the outline. The resultant form confirms the power of the artist to express his thoughts and his ideological relationship with art itself, together with the inborn feeling and understanding he has for his native country. Tsarouhis does not reject anything out of hand, but uses everything which moves him as part of his work.

Yiota Ioannidou (b. 1971)
Born in Paphos. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under P. Tetsis and R. Papaspyrou (1989 - 1994). She participated in group exhibitions in Greece and Cyprus.

Youlika Lakeridou (b. 1940)
Born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1940. She studied Painting at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes of Sorbonne and at Marlborough Gate College of London.

Works of her can be found at numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, France; National Library, Paris; Greek National Gallery; National Gallery of Cyprus; Municipal Art Galleries of Nicosia, Lemessos, Patras, Syros, Ptolemaida, Molyvos, the Collection of the Bank of Cyprus, the University of Athens, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus and many others.