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Group Art Exhibition "Beyond The Surface" 24th -26th April 2026
Group Art Exhibition
"Beyond The Surface"
24th-26th April 2026
1) Artist Name: “Anastasiia Andreeva”
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My journey as a ceramic artist began four years ago after I relocated from Russia to Cyprus. What started as an exploration quickly became an essential way for me to connect with the world. Through my work, I explore the relationship between humans and nature, seeking to express a sense of unity, stillness, and presence. I use form, texture, and color to convey emotional states where love, vulnerability, and strength coexist. I am deeply drawn to natural textures and organic surfaces cracks, layers, and traces of time. I treat clay as a living material, allowing it to reveal its own logic and character.
My pieces are not only objects but embodied experiences. They represent a dialogue between control and spontaneity, between inner states and their physical expression.
"Emergence (Holding Life)"
Artist Name: Anastasiia Andreeva
Title: Emergence (Holding Life)
Medium: Stoneware, hand-built, textured surface, pigment
Size: H 165 mm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €230
Nationality: Russian
Description: This series explores the relationship between form and life. Each piece functions as a vessel, not only containing, but supporting, revealing, or interacting with a living element. The works investigate how structure can hold fragility, and how life emerges, grows, and is sustained within material boundaries. Emergence.
This piece captures a moment of emergence a fragile form pushing through a rigid structure. The geometric body acts as a container, while the organic element breaks through its surface, creating a tension between control and life. The contrast between solidity and vulnerability reflects the delicate process of growth where something alive appears within a confined and resistant environment.
Emergence (Holding Life)
"Root System"
Artist Name: Anastasiia Andreeva
Title: Root System
Medium: Stoneware, hand-built, glazed
Size: H 120 mm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €130
Country: Russian
Description: This work explores the idea of support and interconnectedness. The structure rises from the base like a network of roots, holding and elevating a living element.
The vessel becomes not only a container but a system of relationships, where stability is created through complexity and connection. It reflects the invisible structures that sustain life.
Root System
"Flow"
Artist Name: Anastasiia Andreeva
Title: Flow
Medium: Stoneware, hand-built, textured surface, mixed media (glass tube)
Size: H 170 mm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €140
Country: Russian
Description: This piece explores continuity and flow. The form unfolds as a continuous movement, creating a rhythm between stability and motion. Integrated glass elements introduce a vertical axis, allowing a living element to interact with the structure. The work reflects balance between control and fluidity, where form becomes a path rather than a fixed object.
Flow
"Palimpsest I"
Artist Name: Anastasiia Andreeva
Title: Palimpsest I
Medium: Stoneware, layered clay, iron oxide, textured surface
Size: H 275 mm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €690
Country: Russian
Description: The title “Palimpsest” reflects the idea of continuous rewriting and transformation. This piece explores the idea of layered memory and traces of time. Like a palimpsest, the surface holds remnants of previous states, partially erased yet still visible through texture and light.
The form was created intuitively through layering clay and working with raw textures, allowing the material to reveal its own movement. Iron oxide enhances depth and emphasizes the relief, bringing hidden structures to the surface. For me, this work is a dialogue between control and spontaneity, between what is erased and what remains.
Palimpsest I
"Palimpsest II"
Artist Name: Anastasiia Andreeva
Title: Palimpsest II
Medium: Stoneware, layered clay, iron oxide, textured surface
Size: H 250 mm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €640
Country: Russian
Description: This piece continues the exploration of layered memory and traces of time within the “Palimpsest” series. Unlike the first form, the focus here shifts inward towards wholeness and internal tension. Layers of clay build a complex surface where patterns and textures partially obscure one another, evoking accumulated experience and hidden narratives.
The absence of external elements enhances the sense of containment, making the form more quiet and introspective. Iron oxide reveals the depth of the relief and emphasizes transitions between layers, allowing light to move across the surface and activate its complexity. This work speaks about inner memory about what remains beneath the surface, even without visible expression.
Palimpsest II
"Fault Line"
Artist Name: Anastasiia Andreeva
Title: Fault Line
Medium: Stoneware, layered clay, iron oxide, dry pigments, textured surface
Size: H 220 mm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €520
Country: Russian
Description: This piece explores a moment of internal tension pushed to its limit. Layers of clay, like geological strata, accumulate pressure until the form begins to rupture and open. The surface was shaped through direct physical interaction with the material thick slabs of clay were repeatedly dropped and compressed against a wooden surface. The upper layer remained untouched, allowing natural cracks and fractures to emerge, later emphasized with dry pigments.
The break at the top becomes not only a physical event but a symbolic gesture a point where what was hidden emerges to the surface. This work speaks about the boundary between containment and collapse the moment when a form can no longer remain stable and is forced to transform.
Fault Line
2) Artist Name: "Brit Lindström"
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I started painting with Nick Costa when I first came to Cyprus and have loved it ever since.
Artist Name: Brit Lindström
Title: The Wave
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50x60 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €460
Nationality: Norwegian
Description: Being a Norwegian and having grown by the sea I love the force and movement of the sea.
The Wave
"Sunset Breeze"
Artist Name: Brit Lindström
Title: Sunset Breeze
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50x60 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €460
Nationality: Norwegian
Description: The atmosphere of a sunset by the sea fills me with calm.
Sunset Breeze
3) Artist Name: Gabriel Dandan
Gabriel Dandan, a self-taught artist who was exposed to diversity of many cultures, spent his childhood in South America, followed by his teen years in Beirut, Lebanon. Due to the unrest in the country, he immigrated to the United States, where he spent a long period of his life. However, with his eventual return to the Middle East, once again he devoted his time to painting. He visited Cyprus frequently, where he held several exhibitions in Paphos from 2007 – as a solo artist, with the Open Studio and with other artists. The diverse culture he experienced during his travels, inspired and enriched his imagination, which is reflected in the wide variety of scenes. Gabriel started his artistic career working on a variety of surfaces with oils, the change to acrylics on his return to the Middle East. Later on in 2010, due to injury, once again he changed his medium and started painting with pastel, water, oil pencils and ink, which he was able to do sitting down with magnificent results. As he once said: I find the infinity subtlety of colours fascinating, whether in city markets, during seasonal changing in the countryside, in the mood of the sea or the character of harbours and boats. It is a constant challenge to capture this in my paintings.
Regrettably, Gabriel passed away in 2016 after a long battle with Cancer.
"The Jetty"
Artist Name: Gabriel Dandan
Title: The Jetty
Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Size: 79 x 71 cm
Year Created: 2008
Price: €550
Nationality: Lebanese
Description: The Jetty at Ayios Georgeos
The Jetty
"Ayios Georges"
Artist Name: Gabriel Dandan
Title: Ayios Georges
Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Size: 97x74 cm
Year Created: 2008
Price: €1100
Nationality: Lebanese
Description: One of his favorite relaxing sites.
Ayios Georges
4) Artist Name: Anastasia Saakyan
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I’ve been in art since early childhood, surrounded by art books, albums, exhibitions, museums, family friends artists, drawing myself, although beyond any systematic education. Already an adult, I’ve taken some formal academic education in art. For the last 17 years I’ve been drawing and painting watercolors and oils, having started with realism and shifting to symbolism, suprematism and abstract art.
I’ve been to solo and group exhibitions in Cyprus, Italy, France, Russia. Recently, I’ve taken up clay sculpture which I see as an excellent means to expand my visual expression. Art is my language to talk to the world as I feel inspired by ancient civilizations, history, nature, various cultures and diverse art of the world.
Artist Name: Anastasia Saakyan
Title: The Prophet
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 52 x 45 cm
Year Created: 2015
Price: €2300
Nationality: Russian
Description: Every time I reflect on past civilizations, lost cultures and perished empires, I recall prophets, messengers of G-d, gifted with divine insights. The Prophet on my painting is facing left - the past and present - to stress that prophets are not magicians or soothsayers, but rather living consciousness of people to guide and warn them, and to remember that for prophets future is past, already accomplished in G-d’s plans.
The Prophet
"In An Antique Shop"
Artist Name: Anastasia Saakyan
Title: In An Antique Shop
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 39 x 48 cm
Year Created: 2014
Price: €980
Nationality: Russian
Description: This still life was painted with 3 colors only - red ochre, yellow ochre and black. All minute nuances are combination and mixes of the above three.
I’ve chosen what is known as a limited colour palette to convey the unique, slightly muted, atmosphere of an old antique shop where every package bears a secret, a mystery, a hidden treasure unveiled after being unwrapped.
In An Antique Shop
"The Melody of the last mountains"
Artist Name: Anastasia Saakyan
Title: The Melody of the last mountains
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Size: cm
Year Created: 2015
Price: €345
Nationality: Russian
The Melody of the last mountains
"Still Life Books & Owl"
Artist Name: Anastasia Saakyan
Title: Still Life, Books & Owl
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: cm
Year Created: 2016
Price: €1150
Nationality: Russian
Still Life Books & Owl
"The seasons: Winter, Autumn, Spring, Summer"
Artist Name: Anastasia Saakyan
Title: The seasons: Winter, Autumn, Spring, Summer
Medium: Stoneware, Oxides, Glazing, Gliding
Size: 53 - 59 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €690 Each €2300 for all
Nationality: Russian
The seasons: Winter, Autumn, Spring, Summer
5) Artist Name: Marija Constantinou
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I am Serbian born artist living in Cyprus. My interest in art started from very early age. I trained with several renowned Serbian artists in classic painting, drawing and stained glass, but found my true passion in abstract painting. I am a qualified nurse, but in 2008 decided to give it up, so I can pursue my art career. I enjoy discovering new techniques and ways to express myself.
My work is expressive, dynamic and and colorful, and is representing my thoughts and feelings during the painting and is greatly affected by the music I choose to listen in that process. Art for me is a way of life, it's never ending source of power that keeps me going... I worked with numerus interior designers and sold my work worldwide.
"Dreaming in Colour"
Artist Name: Marija Constantinou
Title: Dreaming in Colour
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Size: 120x80 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €1100
Nationality: Serbian/Cypriot
Description: Dreaming in Color explores emotion through layered mixed media, using red, blue, and pink as a visual language. Red suggests intensity and energy, blue introduces depth and reflection, while pink softens the composition with moments of vulnerability.
Through layering and mark making, the surface reveals traces of what lies beneath like memories that shape our inner world. Rather than a fixed narrative, the work invites personal interpretation, encouraging viewers to connect through feeling rather than form.
Dreaming in Colour
Artist Name: Marija Constantinou
Title: Les Etoilès
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Size: 80x65 cm
Year Created: 2024
Price: €590
Nationality: Serbian/Cypriot
Description: Les Étoiles is an exploration of chaos and clarity, inspired by the energy of the cosmos and the quiet persistence of stars shining through darkness. Through vivid layers of electric blue, deep black, and flashes of magenta and white, this piece captures the emotional turbulence of searching for light within. The textures and marks, both deliberate and instinctual mirror constellations forming from disorder, inviting the viewer to find their own meaning in the abstract. This work is a meditation on contrast, movement, and the infinite, reminding us that even in our most fractured moments, there is always something luminous waiting to emerge.
Les Etoilès
"Expectations 1 & 2"
Artist Name: Marija Constantinou
Title: Expectations 1 & 2
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard
Size: 42x32 cm framed
Year Created: 2025
Price: €290 Each or €460 for both
Nationality: Serbian/Cypriot
Description: Expectations 1 & 2 are a pair of small mixed media works that explore tension between anticipation and reality. Using predominantly blue and red, the paintings reflect an emotional push and pull blue suggesting distance, reflection, and uncertainty, while red introduces urgency, pressure, and desire. Though similar in palette, each piece shifts subtly in balance and movement, echoing how expectations are never fixed but constantly evolving.
Layered marks and textures hint at what is built up internally assumptions, projections, and imagined outcomes often contrasted by what is left unresolved. Together, the works invite a quiet contemplation of how we construct expectations, and how those constructions shape our emotional responses.
Expectations 1 & 2
6) Artist Name: Maiya Petra
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Self-taught artist who has been painting from childhood.
•2004 - Graduated from the magistracy of the National Technical University in Kirovograd, the faculty of accounting.
•2019 Attended a course of lectures on art therapy from the International Federation of Art therapy.
•2019 - 2021 Art therapy for children with special needs.
•2019 - 2021 - Participated in several group exhibitions
•2022 - Exhibition, “Metaphysical Perspectives”, at the Stefano Sichel Transvisionism Art Gallery, Italy.
•2023 - group exhibition as part of The International Charity Festival “I am Ukrainian”, at the Vasylkivskas Museum, Kiev.
•2023 - group exhibition of unique paintings“Peace. War. Victory. Peace.” Kiev.
•2024 - group exhibition of the Monte-Carlo Rally
2024 from Gambrani Art Gallery and the Cultural Center of Ukraine, Kiev.
•2024 - group exhibition “Venezia in Maschera”, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy. •2024 - taking part in Contemporary Art exhibition “Open Door” as part of the “Talents of Cyprus” project. Paphos, Cyprus 2024.
•2024 - taking part in mixed art exibitions
•2025 - taking part Group Art exhibition “Path of Becoming” organized and curated by Elham Razani.
"Sea ballad"
Artist Name: Maiya Petra
Title: Sea ballad
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 40×50 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €990
Nationality: Ukraine
Description: This work captures a quiet fishing boat resting in the bay of Zygi village. The scene reflects a moment of stillness, where everyday life meets the calm rhythm of the sea.
I was drawn to the simplicity of the boat, its worn textures, and the atmosphere of a place shaped by routine and tradition. Through light and composition, I wanted to preserve the feeling of warmth, salt air, and time moving slowly along the Cypriot coast.
Sea ballad
"Marina"
Artist Name: Maiya Petra
Title: Marina
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 40×50 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €990
Nationality: Ukraine
Description: This piece was inspired by Limassol Marina ,a place I return to often. There is a particular boat that seems to always be there, becoming part of the rhythm of the space.
For me, it feels like a fixed point within movement, surrounded by changing light, reflections, and passing moments. I was interested in capturing this quiet familiarity, where the sea, the marina, and the boat create a sense of stability and personal connection.
Marina
"Morning dream"
Artist Name: Maiya Petra
Title: Morning dream
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 40×50 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €990
Nationality: Ukraine
Description: This work was inspired by an early morning moment at Paphos Harbour. I saw this boat just as the day was beginning in soft, diffused light, when everything feels quiet and suspended in time. The still water, gentle reflections, and pale sky created a sense of calm and introspection. I wanted to capture that fragile transition between night and day, where the boat appears almost like a silhouette of thought present, yet drifting between reality and atmosphere.
"Morning dream"
7) Artist Name: Marleen Lorek
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I am a self-taught mixed media artist based in Paphos, Cyprus, originally from Germany. I began painting in my early twenties as a way to express what words could not hold. Over time, this developed from a private need into a central part of my work. Alongside painting, I have worked for more than 20 years in live event lighting.
This background continues to influence how I approach color, contrast, and the interaction between light and surface. I work intuitively, without sketches or predefined compositions. My paintings are built in layers using acrylic, structural paste, and spray paint. The surface develops through application, removal, and reworking. Material breaks open, layers remain visible, and relief structures form. Texture is not an addition but the core of the work.
It defines depth, resistance, and presence. What remains visible is the result of a process rather than a planned image. My work has been exhibited internationally, including in Miami, New York, Rome, Berlin, Lisbon, Limassol, and Paphos.
" Diffuse Glow"
Artist Name: Marleen Lorek
Title: Diffuse Glow
Medium: Acrylic, structural paste, spray paint on canvas
Size: 40×40×4 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €550
Nationality: German
Description: Diffuse Glow developed without a fixed plan, during a quiet search for clarity.
The surface is built through repeated layering and reworking.
A fractured central field exposes underlying color, while edges remain visible and fine cracks run through the material. The lower area carries more weight and density. Above, the surface opens into softer transitions of warm tones. The painting does not resolve the state it emerged from it holds it.
Diffuse Glow
Artist Name: Marleen Lorek
Title: Offelia, A State Between Shift and Fading
Medium: Acrylic, structural paste, spray paint on canvas
Size: 50×70×4 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €790
Nationality: German
Description: This piece began at the same time as the other two works, but did not come together immediately. It required distance stepping away and returning to it later. The surface reflects that slower process. A dense horizontal band of material runs across the center. The paste is heavily applied and breaks open, revealing layered color beneath. Edges remain sharp, fragments lift from the surface.
Above and below, the composition becomes lighter. Spray paint and thin acrylic layers create a more diffused field. Unlike the other works, this one does not push outward. It settles into a quieter balance somewhere between presence and fading.
Offelia, A State Between Shift and Fading
8) Artist Name: Fedor Saphronov
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I began my art journey with a strong interest in visual expression. From 2018 to 2023, I studied at the Moscow School of Art and Architecture “Start.” Since 2023, I have continued my practice at “Art Hive,” focusing on personal and experimental work. I explore the connection between emotion and form through painting.
"Sirena"
Artist Name: Fedor Saphronov
Title: Sirena
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 50×35 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €175
Nationality: Russian
Description: Sirena is a fictional girl I created in pencil, shaped more by feeling than reality. She exists somewhere between imagination and emotion not tied to a specific place or time.
Through soft lines and subtle details, I tried to capture a sense of quiet mystery and inner depth. She is not just a portrait, but a reflection of a mood delicate, distant, and slightly untouchable.
Sirena
"Fighter"
Artist Name: Fedor Saphronov
Title: Fighter
Medium: Ink, pencil on paper
Size: 50×35 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €175
Nationality: Russian
Description: In this work, I draw a parallel between the ancient warrior and the inner battles we face today. The figure is not only a character from the past, but a reflection of a timeless state the moment of tension before a clash, where control, discipline, and instinct meet.
I am interested in the idea that struggle has not disappeared, it has only changed its form. What once was a physical confrontation is now often internal.
Fighter
"Diva"
Artist Name: Fedor Saphronov
Title: Diva
Medium: Ink, pencil on paper
Size: 42×30 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €175
Nationality: Russian
Description: Diva is a fictional girl I created in pencil a balance between elegance and intellect. Her gaze is calm yet captivating, drawing the viewer in with a sense of quiet confidence and depth. The intricate elements woven into her hair hint at a mind filled with technical ideas and complex thoughts, as if mechanisms and imagination coexist within her. She is not only beautiful, but aware observing, analyzing, understanding.
Through soft shading and precise lines, I wanted to express a character who sees beyond the surface, whose presence feels both delicate and powerful a modern muse shaped by intelligence as much as by mystery.
Diva
9) Artist Name: Olga Kotlamina
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I came to painting through a personal need to express what I could not fully articulate in words. It began as an intuitive process and gradually became a consistent practice. Working with oil on canvas, I create inner landscapes shaped by light, memory, and subtle emotional states. I am interested in moments where form is both emerging and dissolving, where presence feels fragile yet persistent. My work often develops in series, reflecting an ongoing exploration of stillness and transformation. Through painting, I aim to create quiet spaces where the viewer can pause and connect with something within themselves.
"Radiant Origin"
Artist Name: Olga Kotlamina
Title: Radiant Origin
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 50x40 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €400
Nationality: Ukraine
Description: A luminous burst of light dissolves the landscape into soft shifting fragments. Hints of trees and earth remain but form gives way to memory leaving a quiet sense of presence and warmth with a gentle upward movement.
Radiant Origin
"Memory of Grass"
Artist Name: Olga Kotlamina
Title: Memory of Grass
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 50x40 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €345
Nationality: Ukraine
Description: A quiet field of tall grasses filled with a longing for home. Warm golden tones and soft lines hold a sense of memory and distance, where light becomes a gentle reminder of something once close and deeply familiar.
Memory of Grass
10) Artist Name: Katja Tonja
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I’m Croatian born artist. Following a gypsy like life of travel and creativity I finally settled in Cyprus. The light and colours of the island suit my artistic direction and creativity.
It is, therefore, no surprise that my paintings are largely very bright and colourful even though the subjects I chose often depict darker moments in our present situation. I use predominantly acrylic but like to experiment with multimedia which often produce surprising results- something that I find most exciting.
"Sisters are doing it for themselves"
Artist Name: Katja Tonja
Title: Sisters are doing it for themselves
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 80x80 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €750
Nationality: Croatian
Description: Women are often undervalued, disregarded and abused. Times are changing- women are helping each other to better themselves and take control of their lives.
Sisters are doing it for themselves
"Life in the time of Corona"
Artist Name: Katja Tonja
Title: Life in the time of Corona
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 60x60 cm
Year Created: 2020-2022
Price: €350
Nationality: Croatian
Description: It was a time of sickness, fear and death. Humanity came up trumps. We helped each other, we showed empathy and cared for each other. It was a time of great sadness and great love. We will never forget it.
Live in the time of Corona
11) Artist Name: Kim Gush
Kim Gush is a Zimbabwean-born artist based in Cyprus, working in oil on canvas. For more than forty years, Zimbabwe was home its vast skies, unhurried rhythms, and the deep familiarity of a landscape shared with extraordinary wildlife. One does not spend four decades in such a place without it shaping the way one sees. Without learning that stillness is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything. That understanding is what her canvases hold.
Working with layered tone and carefully weighted light, Kim does not seek to document her subjects; she seeks to inhabit the moment just before and just after the one a photograph might capture the pause, the lean, the knowing, the quiet authority of a creature that has outlived almost everything around it. Her work is unhurried, atmospheric, and rooted in a genuine knowledge of her subject.
Kim began painting three years ago under the mentorship of Jo Renwick, and this exhibition her first is offered in tribute to the teacher who made it possible.
"Footsteps Remembered"
Artist Name: Kim Gush
Title: Footsteps Remembered
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 90x60 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €520
Nationality: Zimbabwean
Description: There is something both commanding and melancholic about a lone bull elephant moving across an open plain. In Footsteps Remembered, a great tusker walks directly toward the viewer unhurried, certain, carrying the weight of decades in every step. Elephants are among nature’s most remarkable memory-keepers, navigating vast landscapes by routes held in collective and individual memory across generations. This painting seeks to honour that the sense of a life fully lived, of ancient paths walked and re-walked, of a creature that carries its history with it.
The stormy sky and swirling dust place him at a threshold between stillness and movement, past and present. His gaze meets ours without flinching. Painted in oils, the contrast between the warm golden earth and the turbulent blue sky was central to the composition a tension between the grounded and the elemental that mirrors the elephant’s own quiet power.
Footsteps Remembered
Artist Name: Kim Gush
Title: Close Counsel
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 60x50 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €400
Nationality: Zimbabwean
Description: This painting explores the profound bonds that exist within elephant society a world governed by memory, matriarchy, and deep emotional intelligence. In Close Counsel, two elephants meet in a moment of intimate connection, their trunks entwined and tusks almost touching in what feels less like chance encounter and more like deliberate communion.
Elephants communicate in ways that go far beyond the visible through touch, vibration, and a collective wisdom passed down through generations.
This piece attempts to capture that exchange: the quiet power of two ancient beings, heads together in the dust, sharing something wordless and profound. Painted in oils, the warm earth tones and enveloping composition are intended to draw the viewer into the scene rather than observe it from a distance to feel the weight, the warmth, and the significance of the moment.
Close Counsel
12) Artist Name: Jamie Jones
Jamie Jones is a contemporary painter exploring confidence, identity, and constructed roles. Working in oils, he blends classical techniques with contemporary cultural references, depicting children using costume and imagination as a form of self-belief, confidence and escapism. His work reflects how these behaviours carry into adulthood. His ongoing series Playtime Mafia debuted internationally at Art Miami 2025 with Vertical Gallery.
Artist Name: Jamie Jones
Title: The Vigilante
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 60x80 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €4000
Nationality: British
Description: “The Vigilante” explores the idea that what we wear can shape how we feel and move through the world. A costume becomes armour. It creates confidence, presence, and belief, something seen most clearly in a child. A five-year-old dressed as Batman does not question it. They embody it. The figure wears a version of Batman layered with Japanese influence, referencing the character’s roots in samurai discipline and code.
The Kanji: 正 meaning justice and 守 meaning protection sit on the surface as symbols of strength and purpose. Beneath these layers is something far simpler, a child using imagination to feel confident and powerful, something that can become lost as we experience life as an adult. The work contrasts these outer symbols with the internal shift they create, pointing to a simple truth. Confidence is often constructed. It is something we step into, not something we are simply born with.
The Vigilante
13) Artist Name: Jill Demetriou
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I am a Visual Artist, currently working with ceramics, collage & printmaking. I create hand built sculptural ceramics inspired by the landscape, flora and fauna of the Akamas. I work with ideas caught on camera and from memory, making notes of thoughts, concepts and impressions in sketch books. I use variety of different clay bodies but prefer to make my own hand made paper clay combined with recycled stoneware. The paper clay is lighter, has strength and allows for me to change my mind - I can add or detract details as the piece develops. The 'decomposition of the Akamas' are the thought lines fueling my current work Weathered by wind, water and extreme heat, the sculptural vessels I make are a visceral response to my experiences of the Akamas environment. The shapes, colours, textures are taken from the landscape and combined to create works which communicate movement and the elemental processes that they have been subjected to.
"Cowrie Shell"
Artist Name: Jill Demetriou
Title: Cowrie Shell
Medium: Ceramic /Stoneware clay
Size: Approx. 30×18×18 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €69
Nationality: English
Description: Cowrie shell Hand made from stoneware clay. Hand painted & stencil printed with hand cut stencils and paint on glazes.
The Cowrie Shell is one of a number of large scale shells pieces created by experimenting with altered proportions to create different view points.
Cowrie Shell
" Akamas Coastline l"
Artist Name: Jill Demetriou
Title: Akamas Coastline l
Medium: Ceramic
Size: 14×18×11 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €69
Nationality: English
Description: Using soft overlapping clay forms and snail like embellishments, this oval vessel resembles the complexity of the regions flora. Created with white stoneware and subtle gelli plate printed textures. The addition of the aged copper leaf is an acknowledgement of the copper deposits extracted from the island since 4,000 BCE.
Akamas Coastline l
Artist Name: Jill Demetriou
Title: Akamas Cliff l
Medium: Ceramic
Size: H:21 cm W:22 cm D:8.5 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €80
Nationality: English
Description: The two faces of this cliff depict contrasting effects of the elemental erosion on the rock formations of the area.
Akamas Cliff l
14) Artist Name: Jo Renwick
Memories from Africa.
Drawing and painting have always been a part of my life. My dream was to be a sculptor but life took me on a different journey. My love for animals comes from growing up in South Africa. The sounds, the sunsets and the silence. I am self taught but have always joined art groups wherever I lived in the world. I work with oil paints and paint portraits, animals, seascapes, nature and abstracts.
Many of my animal paintings were donated to Earth Organization and to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Foundation that does amazing things for conservation in South Africa and Kenya.
My paintings have found homes in Canada, America, the UK, Europe, Africa and Australia.
"Leopard Focus"
Artist Name: Jo Renwick
Title: Leopard Focus
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 70x70 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €920
Nationality: South African
Description: Leopards are elusive and very few people have seen them in real life. This is my contribution to those who cannot have that experience.
"Leopard Focus"
"Majestic Lion"
Artist Name: Jo Renwick
Title: Majestic Lion
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Size: 70x70 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €920
Nationality: South African
Description: Lions are very powerful yet very gentle. Seeing a lion in real life and hearing it roar give you goosebumps. The painting shows their majestic side.
Majestic Lion
Title: Window to Serenity
Medium: 3D on Canvas, Mixed Media
Size: 90x70 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €7800
Nationality: Iranian
Description: This painting was created while my country was and still is under attack. With no internet and no way to contact my family in Iran, I lived through weeks of silence and worry. In that uncertainty, I turned inward, and this work became my refuge.
Created with the technique I developed after losing 50 paintings in a fire in South Africa in 2017, this piece is about finding calm within chaos. The quiet sea reminds us to pause, breathe, and be present.
For me, it is a place of stillness, reflection, and peace a reminder that even in life’s noise, calm can always be found.
Window to Serenity
"The Peace Within"
Artist Name: Elham Razani
Title: The Peace Within
Medium: 3D on Canvas, Mixed Media
Size: 130x70 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €8500
Nationality: Iranian
Description: This painting captures a quiet, peaceful moment. A relaxed figure sits by the window, gently looking out toward the sea. The soft light and calm atmosphere create a feeling of stillness, like everything has slowed down.
The window feels like an opening to the view outside, to a sense of calm within. The sea beyond is steady and soothing, inviting the viewer to pause and let go of everyday worries. In a busy world, this painting is a gentle reminder that peace can be found in simple moments, just by being present and taking it all in.
The Peace Within
16) Artist Name: Svetlana De Smet
https://www.instagram.com/slana_desmet/
Svetlana De Smet is a Russian artist. Since 2015, I have been living in Cyprus, where I find inspiration for my work. In my works the texture becomes a language through which I express the whole spectrum of emotions and feelings and invite the viewer to feel the richness and variety of surfaces.
Each painting is not only a visual admiration, but also an inner contemplation.
"Whisper of the Sky"
Artist Name: Svetlana De Smet
Title: Whisper of the Sky
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 100x70 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €690
Nationality: Russian
Description: When the horizon fades into silence and the sea becomes a mirror, the sky whispers not in words, but in light, in shadow, in breath. It is eternity speaking to itself, with humankind a silent witness to beauty that needs no explanation.
Whisper of the Sky
"Cold Reflection"
Artist Name: Svetlana De Smet
Title: Cold Reflection
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 80×60 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €460
Nationality: Russian
Description: The cold reflection is the border between the noise of the outside world and inner infinity. Where form disappears, meaning begins.
Cold Reflection
“Magic Light”
Artist Name: Svetlana De Smet
Title: Magic Light
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 70×50 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €460
Nationality: Russian
Description: “Magic Light” shows an old lantern glowing softly against a cracked wall, its warm golden light creating a feeling of comfort, mystery, and gentle enchantment like a quiet invitation into memories and dreams.
Magic Light
17) Artist Name: Thekrayat Alabbasi
http://instagram.com/Teya_inspiration
My work explores the intersection of form, language, and memory. Working with clay, I create ceramic pieces that embody both strength and fragility. Each form is shaped by hand, allowing the material’s natural movement and subtle imperfections to remain preserving authenticity and presence. Across each surface, I inscribe a single word in Arabic calligraphy: Thekreyat Memories. This word is not repeated, but reimagined, guided by the curvature of the form so that script and object become inseparable. Memories shape identity, carrying what we hold onto, what we lose, and what continues to define us over time.
Arabesque elements are interwoven throughout my work, forming the visual backbone of my practice and grounding it in my Arab roots while evoking continuity and timelessness.
My journey began in 2021 painting terracotta bowls, evolving to slab work in 2023 and wheel-throwing in 2024 at The Makers Space in Tala, Cyprus, guided by Lee Anne Raw. Alongside my ceramics, I create bespoke Arabic calligraphy on paper, composing names for families as meaningful keepsakes. Bringing calligraphy onto clay marked a defining evolution uniting form and language into a single enduring expression.
"Centered"
Artist Name: Thekrayat Alabbasi
Title: Centered
Medium: Staffordshire clay
Size: 45cm diameter
Year Created: 2026
Price: €580
Nationality: Bahraini
Description: This 45 cm bowl draws the eye inward. At its core, the Arabic word Thekreyat (Memories) is inscribed with quiet authority, held within a richly glazed surface.
The contrast between depth and raw clay reveals a dialogue between permanence and impermanence where memory settles, yet continues to resonate.
Centered
"Embedded"
Artist Name: Thekrayat Alabbasi
Title: Embedded
Medium: PRAI clay
Size: 43x33 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €400
Nationality: Bahraini
Description: Slab-formed and defined by its quiet geometry, this 40 cm plate carries Thekreyat (Memories) carved into its surface.
The rainforest celadon glaze settles into each incision, revealing and concealing in equal measure. Memory here is not applied, but held embedded within the structure of the form itself.
Embedded
Artist Name: Thekrayat Alabbasi
Title: Undulation
Medium: Staffordshire clay
Size: 50 cm diameter
Year Created: 2026
Price: €1050
Nationality: Bahraini
Description: A 50 cm hand-formed work in Staffordshire clay, defined by its softly undulating rim. The surface becomes a continuous field for the Arabic word Thekreyat (Memories), its movement guided by the shifting contours of the form. Subtle variations and natural irregularities affirm its singularity an object shaped as much by gesture as by intention.
Undulation
18) Artist Name: Sharen Taylor
https://www.instagram.com/sharentaylormosaics
BA(Hons) Fine Art sculpture. 1982
Immediately after I followed a career in archaeological conservation training at The Institute of Archaeology London and British Museum.
In 2021 I put all my years of experience and skills into a new direction with the objective of; “carrying on the cultural heritage of mosaic making in modern materials. I have been teaching and creating works of art for the past 24 years.
Life is a creative journey, the creation of artworks becomes part of that journey. The unseen process is often more thrilling for me than the final piece.
‘Eye got my Eye on you"
Artist Name: Sharen Taylor
Title: Eye got my Eye on you
Medium: Metal cone shape, Bisazza Mosaic tiles and Glass
Size: Height 60 cm, width 26 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €750
Nationality: England - Cyprus
Description: I work with a spontaneous flow in space and with spaces. I create from within no preconceived idea what the outcome will be. Here I’m working with the flow of line emphasized by the empty space. Conscious application of materials to last the test of time inside or outside.
Eye got my Eye on you
19) Artist Name: Verena Venus
https://www.instagram.com/verena.venus/
Through my art, I seek to bring beauty into the world, celebrating themes of transformation, growth, and empowerment.
My current series features portraits of women adorned with flowers and butterflies, symbolizing blooming and metamorphosis. These elements mirror the journey of life delicate yet resilient and resonate with the strength and beauty inherent in femininity. Inspired by the natural cycles of growth in flowers and the chrysalis, this work reflects my own path as an artist: evolving, flourishing, and embracing change. Working with acrylic on canvas, I layer vibrant colors and intricate details to evoke depth and emotion.
Each piece aims to connect viewers with a sense of wonder, harmony, and the profound power of transformation. This series is my homage to feminine grace and strength, and my contribution to a more beautiful, inspired world.
"Vereniki"
Artist Name: Verena Venus
Title: Vereniki
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50x60 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €1380
Nationality: German
Description: This piece represents my journey from a place of depression and emptiness to the awakening of my artistic path. It captures the moment I begin to bloom, stepping into my passion and allowing my light to shine.
Though darkness still lingers and I have yet to fully embrace my creative power, I find myself increasingly drawn to the joy of working with color and light. The stark contrasts reflect both my inner struggles and the challenges of creation, but they also embody the deep, heartfelt joy of self-expression.
Vereniki
"Phalaina"
Artist Name: Verena Venus
Title: Phalaina
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50x60 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €1380
Nationality: German
Description: This piece continues both a visual style and an inner journey. Created in the same expressive language as a previous work, it revisits a motif from a year ago through a more grounded perspective.
At its center is the portrait of a Black woman crowned with orchids, symbolizing strength, elegance, and growth. What once felt emerging now feels more integrated and whole. The contrasts are still present but softer, held in greater harmony. This piece reflects a deepening and a stronger sense of self.
Phalaina
"Helena"
Artist Name: Verena Venus
Title: Helena
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 80 cm diameter
Year Created: 2025
Price: €1750
Nationality: German
Description: This piece portrays Helena, a woman with grey hair and blue eyes, set against the presence of a lotus. She embodies the energy of a healer, grounded, calm, and quietly powerful. Creating this painting became a process of healing and release for me, a step toward letting go of old wounds and inner barriers.
It marks another stage in finding my voice as an artist. Like the lotus, it reflects growth through transformation, and the quiet strength that emerges from it.
Helena
20) Artist Name: Yeseniia Havrylova
My name is Yeseniia Havrylova, and I am 14 years old. I started drawing in early childhood as a way to express myself. At first, I found it difficult to accurately depict form and portraits, and I often asked myself “why?”. Later, I attended an art studio, where I began working with paints. However, after the war in Ukraine began, we moved to Cyprus. There, I met people from my home country who taught me to convey color, light, shadow, and form, and also helped me find my artistic style.
For several years, I was in a process of artistic exploration, and eventually I chose graphic art as my main direction. Black-and-white graphic art allows me to focus on the essence of the image, using contrast, line, and form to convey perception and inner psychological states. In my works, I explore themes of human perception and psychological states.
My works have been presented at international exhibitions, including Seattle, USA, and Venice, Italy, and have received first place in an art competition in Dortmund, Germany. I began creating my own works in my style and, over time, made them available for acquisition, setting a personal goal of saving up for my first car. I continue to develop.
Artist Name: Yeseniia Havrylova
Title: N° Silhouette series: syndrome
Medium: liner, pancil, paper: Fabriano
Size: 29,7x42 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €1380
Nationality: Ukranian
Description: This painting is inspired by the neurological symptom “tunnel vision.” When a person with this syndrome looks at another person, their vision becomes tunnel-like, blurring any background and turning the person into a silhouette, which is depicted in the painting, symbolizing an unfinished scene without a background.
"N° Silhouette series: syndrome"
"N° FACE series: syndrome"
Artist Name: Yeseniia Havrylova
Title: N° FACE series: syndrome
Medium: liner, pencil, paper
Size: 35x50 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €1750
Nationality: Ukrainian
Description: This painting is inspired by the neurological symptom “Prosopometamorphopsia”. People with this symptom sometimes describe other people’s faces as if they are replaced with something else, which is what is depicted in the painting.
N° FACE series: syndrome
"N° ALISA series: Syndrome"
Artist Name: Yeseniia Havrylova
Title: N° ALISA series: Syndrome
Medium: liner, pencil, on paper
Size: 35x50 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €1750
Nationality: Ukrainian
Description: This painting is inspired by human psychology. It shows how “Alice in Wonderland syndrome” works, when human perception changes. A person may see objects as larger or smaller than they actually are.
N° ALISA series: Syndrome
21) Artist Name: Yelizaveta Bezkrovna
My pseudonym is Hide. I’m 17 years old, and I started drawing professionally about three years ago, although I’ve always been drawn to creating. As a child, I was accepted into an art school, however, as a Ukrainian, I experienced a very traditional, Soviet-influenced system of education. The moment I was told that “grass cannot be purple,” I decided to begin my self-taught journey.
In my work, I aim to express my emotions and help others understand their own feelings through my art. At first, it may seem very abstract, but I want people to find their own meaning in my work.
In almost every piece, there is a presence of a figure who is not the main character of the story; it represents me as the creator. However, different people often have their own interpretations and perceptions of my art, which makes me feel proud because, as someone once said, the main purpose of art is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
"I’m willing to go down this path"
Artist Name: Yelizaveta Bezkrovna
Title: I’m willing to go down this path
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 40 x 60 cm
Year Created: 2026
Price: €1380
Nationality: Ukrainian
Description: This piece was created without any reference, based only on my personal experience, which makes it even more unique. Recently, I have found peace in winter and snow, as if they take all the world’s worries and cover them. After a while, the wind shows you the way, but the question is: are you ready to step into the unknown?
I’m willing to go down this path
"Progression"
Artist Name: Yelizaveta Bezkrovna
Title: Progression
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 35 x 25 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €460
Nationality: Ukrainian
Description: This artwork is one piece of the narrative series “Limitations are Perceptions”. This title comes from my recent trip to Norway, which made me realize that we are capable of more than we often think. All of the pieces, including “Progression”, in this series have a small figure, which can be a representation of me, you, or anyone living. This figure is not the main character, it simply exists, and you might not notice it at first. Sometimes, we need to let go and trust nature, listen to what the wind tries to tell us.
Progression
22) Artist Name: Zhenya Cherniavskaia
A key element of Zhenya’s approach is her interaction with clay as a living and equal partner. In her practice, the material is not controlled but leads: its plasticity, resistance, and rhythm shape both the form and the final image.
Firing does not fix it reveals. Cracks, drips, and traces of ash become part of the language.
Each piece carries a subtle geography of Zhenya’s life shaped by Florence, Tel Aviv, Paphos, and Minsk. The works emerge from an intuitive fusion of cultures, climates, and emotional landscapes, giving them a distinct and unrepeatable character born from this layered, cross-cultural dialogue.
"Maleficent"
Artist Name: Zhenya Cherniavskaia
Title: Maleficent
Medium: Ceramic Stoneware
Size: Height 31cm, width 26 cm
Year Created: 2025
Price: €250
Nationality: Israeli
Description: Created using the hand-building technique, this piece was shaped in a state of pure flow without a fixed plan, guided only by movement, intuition, and the dialogue with the material. The final form reveals itself only at the end, carrying within it the energy of freedom, unpredictability, and a living process.
Maleficent
Group Art Exhibition "Unbound Creativity" 12-14 April 2024
Group Art exhibition "Unbound Creativity" 12-14th April 2024
Note: Find Videos and Photos of the exhibition at the end of the page.
You are cordially invited to the group exhibition at the Ibrahim Khan Art Gallery, organized and curated by Elham Razani, a Persian Artist who resides in Paphos.
Featuring a diverse ensemble of artists from various nationalities, this exhibition promises to stimulate your senses and ignite inspiration. From seasoned professionals to emerging talents, each artist brings a unique perspective to the table, fostering an electrifying atmosphere of creativity and collaboration.
Your presence at this exhibition not only extends support to the exhibiting artists but also serves as a catalyst for their continued artistic endeavors. We warmly encourage you to share this enriching experience with your friends and family, as we come together to celebrate the transformative power of art.
Join us as we embark on a journey of discovery and celebration, embracing the boundless possibilities of artistic expression.
We look forward to welcoming you to this exceptional showcase of creativity.
Warm regards,
Elham Razani
xxx You will find videos of the event at the end of the information of the artists xxx
Date: 12-14 April 2024
Time: 18:00
Exhibition Date
13th & 14th April
Gallery Open Hours
10:00 - 14:00 & 16:00 - 19:00
Sponsor: TSANGARIDES WINERY
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15 Artists with 9 different Nationalities, Based in Cyprus
- Ellada Amvrosiadou (Greek)
- Christos Christou (Cypriot)
- Svetlana De Smet (Russian)
- Charalambos Epaminonda (Cypriot)
- George Kotsonis (Cypriot)
- Anastasia Krivenko (Russian)
- George Mavros (Cypriot)
- Dimitris Meletis (Greek)
- Edo (Malties)
- Maiya Petra (Ukranians)
- Irina Rozhkova (Russian)
- Andrei Simanschi (Moldona)
- Katja Tonja (Corasian)
- ILona Za (Serbian)
- Elham Razani (Iranian)
Ellada Amvrosiadou
Ellada Amvrosiadou lives in Paphos and has finished Fashion Design Institute in Greece . For some time she worked in the fashion industry yet her love for art took over and the last years she completely focused on it .
Ellada's art is difficult to put between certain frames of a genre , she likes to invent new ,to synthesize and mix different styles but very carefully, invisibly removing the borders .We can definitely say that the analytical state of mind in her paintings is as present as romanticism . In her work minimalism is where the absence of many details is compensated by a distinct center and emotionally bright choice of colours. The scenarios of the pieces do not belong to any type of subjectivism ,as they are filled with metaphors ,associations and symbolism.
When you look at Ellada's paintings you get the unexpected feeling of some fantastic space , afar away mysterious world as if '' through the looking glass''.
Artist Name: Ellada Amvrosiadou
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50x60 cm
Year Created: 2021
Price: €520
Description:
In today's reality where personal interests play the most important role in our society its crucial to stay enlightened & to seek a higher purpose .
As you follow the inner light is important to follow your own compass & not get distracted by other people beliefs . Black heart symbolizes a heartbreak of a pure soul often has to experience in everyday life.
"Home is Where You Make It"
Artist Name: Ellada Amvrosiadou
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 70x100 cm
Year Created: 2020
Price: €690
Description:
No matter where life takes You it's very important to remember that Your home is where You make it ! Your home is your family & friends but also the memories that you hold inside . It's your belief system & your values . Your home is your soul & you carry it no matter the physical location you are at.
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Christos Christou
Christos Christou I was born in 1950. In the 70's I study in the "École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris". After the diploma and a period of personal research I begin my professional career as a painter, sculptor and lithographer in the 80s. Individual mainly exhibitions and special orders are the main part of my professional activity. In the public sector, besides others I design and create the badges, medals and trophies for the International and Pan-European Athletics Games for Students held in France in 1992 and 2002 respectively.
“The Little Poetess”
Artist Name: Christos Christou
Medium: Digital Printing "GICLEE FINE ART"
Size: 50x35 cm
Year Created: 2021
Price: €1100
Description: Comes with certificate of authenticity. Limited edition of 33 copies & 7H.C.ex. (excluding trade). Comes with certificate of authenticity.
"The Wise"
Artist Name: Christos Christou
Medium: digital printing "GICLEE FINE ART"
Size: 50x35 cm
Year Created: 2021
Price: €1100
Description: Comes with certificate of authenticity. Limited edition of 33 copies & 7H.C.ex. (excluding trade). Comes with certificate of authenticity.
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Svetlana De Smet
Svetlana De Smet is a Russian artist who graduated as a teacher from Volgograd University. In 2010, in Luxembourg, at a private art school, she discovered various painting techniques.
"My work in art is an exploration of the depth of feelings and emotions through textural elements and forms. In my works, I use various materials such as texture paste, primer, acrylic, sand and fabric, where texture becomes a language through which I express the entire spectrum of emotion and invite the viewer to feel the richness and variety of surfaces."
Each painting is not only a visual admiration, but also an inner contemplation. They also become the perfect addition to any interior, giving a special charm and individuality to the space.
"Iberia"
Artist Name: Svetlana De Smet
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 50x70 cm
Year Created: 2023
Description: The painting "Iberia" effectively captures the essence of antiquity, as each textured surface intertwines with the cultural foundations of Georgian history. The olive and umber shades imbue it with a profound sense of time, while every brushstroke appears to carry the weight of centuries-old history, transporting the viewer to the expansive realm of the ancient Iberian kingdom.
"The Silence of Pandora"
Artist Name: Svetlana De Smet
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 40x60 cm (each)
Year Created: 2024
The Silence of Pandora" is not just the absence of sounds but a profound tranquility that envelops this mystical world. In this silence, one can feel a connection with nature, where the whisper of the wind and barely audible sounds of the environment create a unique symphony of peace. Calm shades establish an atmosphere of serenity, while lines softly flowing across the canvas reflect invisible waves of silence. And the mist, like a veil, invites the viewer into a meditative immersion in the soundless harmony of Pandora.
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Charalambos Epaminonda
Σπουδάζω την τέχνη πρώτα στην ποίηση, στη λογοτεχνία και μετά στη ζωγραφική. Διαβάζω, γράφω και μετά ζωγραφίζω. Πρώτα είμαι λογοτέχνης και μετά ζωγράφος. Πρώτα ο λόγος και μετά η εικόνα. Έτσι, η ζωγραφική μου γεννιέται μέσα από ένα ποίημα. Συνήθως διαβάζω ποίηση και παραμύθια. Από εκεί αντλώ τα θέματά μου.
"Freedom"
Artist Name: Charalambos Epaminonda
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Size: 50x70 cm
Year Created: 2023
Price: €810
Description: Έμπνευση από το παραμύθι " Τα δώδεκα πουλιά". Δώδεκα αδέλφια έχουν μαγευτεί και έχουν γίνει πουλιά. Η μοναδική τους αδελφή πρέπει να τους φτιάξει δώδεκα φορεσιές από τσουκνίδες. Όταν έλθουν όλα μαζί να τους τις φορέσει και θα λυθούν τα μαγιά. Η δύσκολη αυτή εργασία είναι η δημιουργία του ποιητή. Από το βαρύ στο ανάλαφρο. Από το σκοτάδι στο φως. Η γυναίκα είναι πρωτεργάτης της ελευθερίας.
"Fairy _ Nymph"
Artist Name: Charalambos Epaminonda
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Size: 42x61 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €810
Description: Έμπνευση από το ποίημα του Βασίλη Μιχαηλίδη " Η Ανεράδα ". Ερωτική συνάντηση στη φύση. Η χαρά και η θλίψη του έρωτα. Συνάμα η συνάντηση του ποιητή με τη Μούσα του. Ένα θέμα που πάντα με συγκινεί όπως και κάθε δημιουργό.
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George Kotsonis
George Kotsonis, born on March 14, 1940, in Paleochori, Cyprus, grew up in a large family amidst poverty, with his father working in the Amiantos mines. Despite his parents' aspirations for his education in the city, George's passion for drawing blossomed when he received colored pencils as a gift. His innate talent for capturing his surroundings on paper garnered both admiration and envy from those around him, including his teachers. His love for the Cypriot landscape and its churches deeply influenced his artwork.
Facing financial struggles, George attended the Commercial Academy in Limassol, staying with relatives who owned a bakery. While studying, he continued to paint and worked delivering bread, gaining free entry to the local cinema where he learned about projectors. This exposure to film sparked his fascination with the moving image, shaping his artistic composition.
George's art reflects his cinematic approach, evident in works like the monumental mosaic featuring the Apostle Paul. This masterpiece showcases his skill in composition, emotional expression, and technique. Throughout his life, George remained connected to his roots, drawing inspiration from his childhood landscape and experiences.
Despite his humble beginnings, George Kotsonis's passion for art and his ability to translate his surroundings onto canvas or mosaic established him as a renowned artist. His journey from a poor Cypriot village to artistic acclaim exemplifies the transformative power of passion and talent.
"Dancing 1"
Artist Name: George Kotsonis
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Size: 90x170 cm
Year Created: 2024
Price: €34500
"Dancing 2"
Artist Name: George Kotsonis
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Size: 80x170 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €34500
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Anastasia Krivenko
Anastasia Krivenko is a graphic artist, working in the main in the dry pastel technique. Member of The Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts (E.KA.TE) and a member of The Pastel guild of Europe.
She graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical State University in Russia as a Master of Fine Arts. After graduation, worked as a graphic designer and digital artist for many years. In 2018 Anastasia moved with her family to live in Cyprus. The stunning beauty of this island, with its seascapes, gentle sun and life-giving air reignited her passion to paint with her hands. Intuitively, she chose fragile pastel as the most tactile material capable of conveying feelings and emotions. And each her landscape is a declaration of love for the island of Cyprus as an inexhaustible source of inspiration and admiration.
Anastasia participates in local and international exhibitions and is an active art teacher. Her works are in private collections in Cyprus, Great Britain, US, Russia and other countries.
“INSIDE OF ME”
Artist Name: Anastasia Krivenko
Medium: Mixed Media, gouache and soft pastel on cardboard
Size: 75x105 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €920
"Almond Branch"
Artist Name: Anastasia Krivenko
Medium: Mixed Media, watercolor and soft pastel on cardboard
Size: 30x70 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €810
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George Mavros
Artist Name: George Mavros
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 100x100 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €2000
Artist Name: George Mavros
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 100x100 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €2000
Dimitris Meletis
Artist Name: Dimitris Meletis
Medium: Photography
Size: 40x72 cm
Year Created: 2020
Price: €290
Artist Name: Dimitris Meletis
Medium: Photography
Size: 40x50 cm
Year Created: 2020
Price: €230
Description: Journeying from the east and south, to the north and west, from the safe shelter to the open sea, sometimes looking for the next harbor, always looking for a place to call home..
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Edo
Edo is an up and coming artist in the Art World. He is focused on creating contemporary art pieces in multiple colours to enrich one's life. Past , Present and Future play an important part in his creations as he plays homage to the Old Masters. He tries to envisage and feel the future with great optimism . Hailing from the school of Vokaism, Edo has so far purposely only produced a very limited number of Art creations. Demand for his Art is growing slowly but surely and at times attracted high bids.
Everyday is different and brings out different moods , as I look at a blank canvas my thoughts come alive in colour and the blankness of the canvas disappears .With colour splashed an image starts to form which brings excitement and clarity . Layer after layer of paint and colour , the image unfolds and out comes My Creation. Parts of me have left me and became their own entity and I couldn't be happier.
"Medusa"
Artist Name: Edo
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 65x90 cm
Year Created: 2023
Price: €2000
Description: Medusa (Medusa represents female power and resilience, making it a popular choice for those who identify as feminists or want to celebrate the strength of women) and Zeus (Zeus is considered the ruler, protector, and father of all gods and humans)
Medusa offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the classical figure, blending a rich spectrum of colors to create a strikingly vivid and emotionally resonant piece. The artist has depicted Medusa not just with her iconic serpentine hair but with a humanized and somewhat sympathetic expression that challenges traditional representations of her as a monstrous figure.
"Zeus"
Artist Name: Edo
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 65x90 cm
Year Created: 2023
Price: €2000
Description: The artist's choice to portray Zeus with a direct gaze engages the viewer and adds a personal connection to the otherwise ethereal subject. This technique, combined with the strong features rendered in an almost expressionist style, brings a modern twist to the classic iconography typically associated with the god. Overall, the painting captures the essence of Zeus in a unique blend of color, form, and texture, leaving a lasting impression of both the character's mythology and the artist's personal interpretation.
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Maiya Petra
Self-taught artist. I have been drawing since childhood
Graduated from the magistracy of the National Technical University in
Kirovograd, the faculty of accounting.
"Love"
Artist Name: Maiya Petra
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 60x70 cm
Year Created: 2024
Price: €1400
Description: In the Love painting, the red ball symbolizes both passion and emotional intensity, while the soft shell around it may represent protection and tenderness. The image has created associations between harmony and a unification of forces. These shall protect and transform this passion into something not only beautiful and also unique.
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Irina Rozhkova
Irina Rozhkova, a watercolor impressionist who discovered her passion for painting at the pivotal age of forty, embraces the unpredictable and fluid essence of watercolors, a medium notorious for its challenging nature. This late blooming artist embarked on a journey of exploration and learning, studying under various teachers, only to realize the beauty and humility in the uncontrollable aspects of the creative process. Irina finds her muse in the unparalleled artistry of nature itself—its vast skies, serene seas, majestic mountains, and awe-inspiring sunrises stir a profound sense of emotion within her, an essence she aspires to capture and convey through her artwork.
Drawing from the colors of the natural world, Irina employs a distinctive technique that involves mixing pigments directly on wet paper, allowing water to play its part in the unfolding story of each piece. This method not only highlights the unpredictable beauty of watercolor but also reflects the artist's belief in the serendipitous interactions between medium and creator. Much of her inspiration is drawn from the stunning landscapes of Cyprus, with its enchanting views offering an endless palette of hues and tones for her work.
Irina Rozhkova’s watercolor landscapes are not just visual representations of the natural world but an invitation to experience the fleeting, ephemeral moments of beauty that nature generously offers. Through her art, she hopes to evoke a symphony of feelings in the viewer, mirroring the profound impact that the natural world has on her. Irina's journey is a testament to the transformative power of art, reminding us that it is never too late to discover one’s passion and that in the dance with the uncontrollable, there lies the true beauty of creation.
"Aphrodite Rock"
Artist Name: Irina Rozhkova
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 39x29 cm
Year Created: 2023
Price: €460
"Stones of the Sea"
Artist Name: Irina Rozhkova
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 37x27 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €220
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Andrei Simanschi
I'm a contemporary painter with an academic background who's exploring the frontier where free abstract expression meets the laws of light and shape as we perceive them. I blend my own techniques with traditional methods, shaping up my version of abstract surrealism.
To me art art is about diving into the sheer beauty of abstract compositions. I'm intrigued by the captivating allure of abstract beauty – it's like a doorway into a state of deep contemplation.
Through my work, I aim to spark the artist present in every viewer. I see art as this amazing bridge that brings us all together in a shared appreciation for beauty.
"Solid Light I"
Artist Name: Andrei Simanschi
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 100x100 cm
Year Created: 2024
Price: €1730
Description: This artwork marks the inception of the upcoming “Solid Light” series. Solid light, or hard light, is a concept theorized by physicists, representing light in a solidified state.
For me, beauty is as elusive as light itself, yet equally valuable and deserving of exploration. Here, the challenges faced by a quantum physicist and an artist can sound strikingly similar – can this ever-moving, elusive, and perplexing substance that envelops us be halted, captured, or tamed? I extend an invitation to the viewer to join me in enjoying the process of trying.
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Katja Tonja
Katja Tonja Croatian-born Cyprus-based artist. My preferred mediums are acrylic and mix media. I like experimenting with bright colours and multitude of materials, often changing genres and subjects to reflect different realities in my life and that of others.
I’ve participated in numerous exhibitions in Cyprus as well as EU, UK and Middle East. Many of my paintings are now in private collections and in institutions in Switzerland, Belgium, Dubai, UK, Croatia and if course Cyprus.
“VASE“
Artist Name: Katja Tonja
Medium: Acrylic / Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 70x80 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: € 435
Artist Name: Katja Tonja
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 72x89 cm
Year Created: 2023
Price: €435
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ILona Za
During my life and studies in Belarus and Russia, I felt the pressure of dictatorship and after graduation, I started travelling and living in different countries of the world. Travelling and studying the history and traditions of various cultures have incredibly expanded my boundaries and perspectives towards art. In my artistic practice, I explore the issues of migration, self-identification and self-acceptance, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature in a fast-paced cosmopolitan world.
Most of my canvases are graphically painted with acrylic in a graphic manner with clean lines and fills. Also, it’s important for me to save the traditions of past generations and use embroidery, mosaics, and handmade work. I like to combine techniques and knowledge from different fields. It helps me to find unexpected creative solutions for my ideas and develop as an artist with every new art piece.
“Bird Singing”
Artist Name: ILona Za
Medium: Acrylic, Silver leaf on Canvas
Size: 50x70 cm
Year Created: 2022
Price: €1200
Description:
My work is inspired by the incredible birdsong that I listen to when I paint in the studio. The color combination of the painting from the Papho’s magnificent sea sunsets.
Harmonious coexistence of human and nature became one of the main subjects in my art. Nature with its endless beauty is my biggest inspiration.
The history of civilizations shows that the rise or fall of a civilization is closely tied to the quality of the ecological environment. We shall protect ecosystems as preciously as we protect our eyes, and cherish them as dearly as we cherish our lives.
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Elham Razani
Beyond her artistry, Elham is a dedicated teacher, nurturing creativity and skill in students of all levels such as Drawing, Hyper-Realism Shading, Oil painting and abstract painting. Her studio is located in Paphos, Old Town, Ibrahim Khan.
Artist Name: Elham Razani
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 120x88 cm
Year Created: 2021
Price: €3300
Description: "Endless Strength" encapsulates the profound resilience of Persian culture amidst adversity, with a striking portrayal of women who refuse to be silenced. Despite facing societal, cultural, and spiritual oppression, women in Iran continue to stand tall, fighting tirelessly for their rights. Their unwavering strength is depicted in the painting's imagery, where even torn clothes symbolize the pressures they endure, yet their confidence remains unshaken.
Furthermore, the inclusion of a 3D-rendered nipple challenges societal norms and censorship, questioning the inequality that women face in comparison to men. By boldly depicting this symbol of female anatomy, the artist highlights the inherent strength and defiance of women, who refuse to be confined by arbitrary rules and restrictions.
In Iran, women continue to push boundaries and defy expectations, inspiring generations to come with their unwavering determination and unwavering resolve to fight for their rights and freedoms.
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"Harmony"
Artist Name: Elham Razani
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 91.5x122 cm
Year Created: 2020
Price: €2900
Description: In this captivating painting, I explore the intricate parallels between flowers and women, delving into their shared traits of beauty, sensitivity, and vulnerability. Like delicate blossoms, both are perceived through the lens of individual perception, where beauty is subjective and lies in the eye of the beholder. Yet, beneath their outward fragility lies a remarkable strength and resilience, akin to the unyielding power found within nature itself. Through vibrant strokes and subtle symbolism, I caution against underestimating or exploiting their essence, for within their grace lies a formidable force to be reckoned with.
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Minutes Before the Exhibition is started https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HruXmkGwY4&list=PLJqLhjaLbbLHB-Cfuz7Iu6Jboj1HXEHDw
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I was opening the Exhibition
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