Painting-X
We use to say that where there's a will there's a way, but in Art we would say that where there's a way there always is a will.
In the last three years we have dealt with the body and its various aspects, mainly through the tools of painting and drawing. This year our subject range will expand in all directions, including also the landscape around us.
Indoor or outdoor landscape? We want to 'talk' with our materials and 'listen' to what they propose. An honest exchange with the material leads to our personal path, our particular expression. How do I go about discovering my personal painterly style?
Originality | Style | Authenticity | Voice
In addition to our familiar materials of painting and drawing we shall go into collage and photography. New issues each week familiarise us with a more specialised terminology. As always, critical discussions during class and long-term assignments on a subject will help us get closer to our own expression.
Class times
Every second Thursday starting from 6 October 2022
Advanced class 4.30 - 7pm
Class dates
- October: 6 & 20
- November: 3 &17
- December: 1 & 15
- January: 12 & 26
- February: 9 & 23
- March: 9 & 23
- April: 6 & 27
- May: 11 & 25
Emilia Tsekoura
Born in Athens, Emilia Tsekoura studied at the Art Communication & Learning team in Athens (1978-80), at the Boston Museum’s School of Fine Arts (1980-84) and at the same time at Tufts University, graduating with a Bachelor in Arts & Sciences.
Between 1988 and 2013, Emilia taught at the Athens College using differentiation teaching, art therapy and the method of Harvard University’s Project Zero (TFU, Visual Thinking). To this day she has had several solo shows in Greece and the US and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.
She is motivated by concepts originating from her own nature and expressed in autobiographical and expressionist ways: woman, Goddess/Idol, birth, genesis, the ovoid, rebirth. The philosophy of constant change in life, nature and art is always the key principle behind her every work.
One element in her art is symbolism and the translation of icons into archetypes. The egg, the sphere, the round, the zero or “nothing” and their reflections, the heart, the spiral, the geometries of nature and many other familiar symbols and concepts appear in various guises, media and materials throughout her artistic course.
She works in Athens and teaches at the art workshops of Fougaro in Nafplio since 2013.
