Hometown Painting

Margarita Lypiridou is a visual artist, painter and printmaker. Employing the landscape and the figure she explores themes of ephemerality, the fluidity of human experience, the complexity of nature and the dialectic relation of reality and imagination. Through the interplay of elements of abstraction and representation, she is attempting to highlight visual and spatial relationships of the ineffable material that makes up the human and the natural world. Lypiridou works with layers upon layers of acrylic, oil, wax and a variety of materials for mixed techniques, creating a dialogue between texture, colour and pattern, con-stantly revealing and concealing different parts of the painting, thus inviting the viewer to look to a place within and respond to the picture in terms of their own lived experience. She studied painting, photography and applied arts in her native Greece and England, before relocating to Montreal in 2002. She holds a Master’s degree of Fine Arts in Studio Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Print Media from Concordia University, Montreal. In the summer of 2021 Lypiridou set up her art practice in her hometown, Thessaloniki, Greece, where she will be spending most of her time. Her studio is now in the heart of the Mediterranean city and her painting is infused with the surrounding vistas, smells and sounds of it. Since 1995 she has been participating in solo and group exhibitions and her work is part of collections across Europe and North America.