Evangelia Giota

She signs her works under the artistic pseudonym "Tethys"

Lawyer and artist, he deals with the painting, design and manufacture of handmade artistic jewelry, starting from the jewelry department of ATHEX and continuing in private workshops of renowned creators.
The creator touches the relationship between the imaginary and the real, seeking the mythical dream that differentiates the beauty of the form thanks to the intervention of original and archetypal aesthetic motifs.
This aesthetic presents a mystery with a "magic" meaning, as it keeps awake the level of an inspiration that becomes multifaceted and multidimensional.
She has also designed the series of handmade jewelry Tethys Petra (Jewelry Tethys), jewelry with semi-precious stones, fossils, energy stones, natural materials such as clay, wood, nuts, porcelain, often imprinted on them, as well as on canvas, with acrylics and oils, sensual flowers with suggestive shapes that enclose the female sex, that seems to be "ejected" or deified, between dreams and fears, female limbs moving among exotic or surreal plants, trees and nature-loving patterns, "balls" with embryos meeting or colliding where motherhood and true female nature are transformed deep into ornate still lifes. ...

Education
1980-1985, Law School at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

He worked as a lawyer for 25 years, in her hometown, Grevena Greece

Basically self-taught, with courses in private schools, such as:

- 2000-2001, School of Byzantine Hagiography and Painting K. Georgiadis, Thessaloniki, Greece

- 2002-2003, Municipal Painting Workshop in Kozani, Greece, with teacher the painter Costas Dios

- 2004, chromatology seminars at a private school in Athens, Greece

- 2010-2011, courses in jewelry design and construction and gemology at the School of Evi Dimolaidou, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- October 2001, participation in a group painting exhibition of the Municipality of Grevena

- July 2014, solo painting exhibition, Afitos, Halkidiki, Greece

- December 2015, solo painting exhibition at the "Tethys" gallery Thessaloniki, Greece

- December 2016, solo painting exhibition, Metsovo, Greece

- December 2017, solo painting exhibition at the ski center of Vasilitsa, Grevena, Greece

- August 2018, solo painting exhibition at the local Mushroom Festival, Grevena, Greece

- August 2019, solo painting exhibition at the local Mushroom Festival, Grevena, Greece

- December 2019, group painting exhibition with the Mi-Ro gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

- December 2020, solo exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Grevena, Greece