Anna-Maria Vagianou

Anna-Maria Vagianou is a Greek Artist - Designer, based in Athens. She was born in 1989. She moved to London in 2008 in order to attend a Foundation course in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins College. She then transferred to London College of Fashion where she graduated on July 2012. Anna-Maria has been awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Upper Second Class Honours having followed an approved programme of study in Fashion: Design and Technology specialized in Fashion Accessories. She likes to combine her technical skills and her love for painting in order to create unique Accessories and contemporary paintings.Her love for colours, material experimentation and textures helps her express herself by creating Abstract and Mixed Media Paintings.
The use of colour is always a fantastic experience, every single day while she paints she discovers new ways of using colour. She experiments a lot with different mediums she mostly uses Acrylics, Household paints, Watercolors and Gouache. She also prefers to create different textures on her paintings. In order to create the textures she uses found objects, rollers, palette knifes, different sizes of brushes and sponges. Her main interest on painting is the combination of mater...

Education

2011 – 2012: BA (Hons) Bachelor of the Arts in Fashion: Design and Technology – London College of Fashion, London, United Kingdom

2009 – 2011: FdA Fashion Design Technology: Cordwainers Accessories – London College of Fashion,
London, United Kingdom

2008 – 2009: UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design – Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, United Kingdom

Award: ABC Level 3 Award in 3D Materials Exploration

2005 – 2007: International Baccalaureate Diploma – The Moraitis School, Athens, Greece

Short courses

February- March 2013 (Term time), Contemporary Collage
– Central Saint Martins College, London United Kingdom

January –March 2013 (Term time), Abstraction Part 2
- Central Saint Martins College, London United Kingdom

January- March 2013 (Term time),Jewellery Making with Plastic and Metal
- Central Saint Martins College, London United Kingdom

January- March 2013 (Term time), Introduction to Printmaking
- Central Saint Martins College, London United Kingdom

February 2013, Exhibition Design and Delivery
– Chelsea College of Art and Design, London United Kingdom

October- December 2012 (Term time), Beaded and Feathered Jewellery
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