Irish music, poetry, literature, art and cuisine by some of Ireland’s best-known contemporary creative talents have been been showcased in the Paxos Irish Wings Festival since its inception in 2017. This year, six prominent Irish ceramicists – Isobel Egan, Sinead Fagan, Jane Jermyn, Ann McBride, Marcus O’Mahony, Kathleen Standen – are exhibiting in Greece for…

Emmanuelle Mellot-Kristy is a graduate of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Paris. For many years she ran a printing studio – the Atelier de l’Orme – in Paris while exhibiting her work in France and in Greece and working on mural and sculptural light commissions for theaters and various institutions in Paris. She also…

Ceramic exhibitions by Greek and international artists have been held in Paxos annually at the municipal gallery, the Old School in Loggos and also at Chris Boïcos Fine Arts in Gaios since 2015. In Earth Wind and Fire (2018) traditional Greek objects like olive oil jars and clay beehives were reimagined by contemporary Greek ceramicists…

Nikola Sarić was born in Bajina Bašta, in western Serbia in 1985 where he spent most of his childhood and early adolescence in a region of beautiful mountains, rivers and valleys before moving to Belgrade in 2000. He moved to Hanover, Germany where he currently lives and works in 2011. One of the most significant…

Nikola Sarić was born in Bajina Bašta, in western Serbia in 1985 where he spent most of his childhood and early adolescence in this region of beautiful mountains, rivers and valleys before moving to Belgrade in 2000. One of the most significant episodes of his youth was Sarić’s discovery of the awe-inspiring atmosphere and beauty…

From Antiquity to the Renaissance the four elements – earth, air, water, fire – were viewed as being the constitutive elements of the world. They were even, according to Galen, associated with the human body as the basis of the “four humors”: yellow bile with fire, black bile with earth, blood with air and phlegm with…

The last twenty years have witnessed across Europe, America and Asia the explosion of creativity in the ceramic arts in a way that openly challenges the often tired evolutions and repetitive monotony of much of contemporary fine and conceptual art. By combining tradition and innovation, an adherence to fine craft but also experimentation with new…

The unique pieces of ceramic and porcelain jewelry on show at Chris Boïcos Fine Arts, Paxos by six distinguished Greek ceramic artists was specially created for the current summer exhibition as a homage to the beauty and the nature of the island of Paxos. The colors and textures of Paxos’ nature from the sea to…

Since the publication in 2004 of the Louis Vuitton ”Carnet d’Athènes” watercolor book, Pavlos Habidis (born 1957) has become increasingly well-known for the beauty and wit of his watercolors, depicting the cities and islands of modern Greece. He has since published four more books of watercolors, three of which depict towns and an island of…