The dance of freedom No1 Collages par Eirene Mpetsa

                     Curriculum vitae

My name is Eirini Betsa, I was born and raised in Arta where I studied during my student years until I finished high school.

For the next 10 years, I lived in Athens where I attended for two years an apprenticeship school on the subject of Pottery and painting. I was also involved in the manufacture of gift items, in the productive part of the work.

After a restaurant that I opened in Milos and that I maintained for two years, I returned to Arta.

I started a family and at the same time as my three daughters grew up, I started a small business, mostly wholesale, with the construction of folk art objects, with the processing of many materials. Cloth dolls, wooden mirrors painted and decorated with metal additives, wreaths decorated with dried flowers, wooden boxes painted and several other items. I was also attending design classes.

But what I chose to focus on was the painting on wood, a revival of an old inscription, enriched by new designs of my own.

I took part in exhibitions in the province and Athens, I collaborated with individuals and professionals in Arta but also throughout Greece and especially in Plaka and Monastiraki.

 In 2008 I started painting on canvas with acrylic paints, using other additives to give my paintings more volume, movement, light or dark. I have a particular weakness for metal, which is why I make compositions on the canvas with metal figures that I make myself.

I like to feel the materials in my hands, to give them form, expression, feeling. Many times I leave the brushes aside, grab the paints with my hands and let the emotion spread on the canvas, between my fingers.

An image, a thought, optimism or pain, can give me the spark I need to create.

Every image is a story, every color an emotion… pieces of a life !!!

• Nationalité: GRÈCE
• Date de naissance : date inconnue
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• Groupes: Artistes Contemporains Grecs