My creative drive is incessant –and I let it take me where it will each time. Some themes have become obsessions throughout the years and they keep inspiring me over and over again, even though the outcome is different each and every time. Being born and raised in Greece, my inspiration is deeply interconnected with my natural environment, which sparks and colours my everyday life. Trees and the rhythmic interconnections between them was one of the first obsessions, which opened the way to a more abstract approach. The sea and its colourful nuances is one of my latest obsessions.
Even though my paintings change throughout the years, as I am changing also, there are some constant values that form the basis of my work. Always seeking harmony of the composition and the colours, always tending towards abstraction, pure forms that emanate clarity, simplicity, and rhythm. Conveying the essence of light is essential, even in the darker paintings.
Usually my paintings express a meditative mood and aim at evoking similar emotions.

Dr. Dimitrakopoulou Zenia graduated as a visual artist from the Athens School of Fine Arts (1997-2003), where she also attended courses on Art Teaching, Photography, Mosaic Art, Engraving and Sculpture.

She completed an MSc program in "Architecture-Space Planning" at the Athens School of Architecture (N.T.U.A), on “Planning-Space-Culture” (2004-2006). Her thesis concerned a hermeneutical approach of the structure of Vermeer’s works.

Since 2015 she has completed her PhD thesis on the analysis of Vermeer’s oeuvre, his harmonic compositions and the symbolism in his works, in the section of History of Art at the Athens School of Architecture, with a scholarship from the University’s Research Fund.

She has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Greece, Portugal and the US.

Artworks by her are included in private collections in Greece, UK, Germany, Russia, US, Canada, Hong Kong.

ZENIA DIMITRAKOPOULOU

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