Light Painting

Greek(born in Athens)living and working in Brussels. Vali's work, mainly oil and watercolour paintings, is focused on the human face and body . Her work tries to capture human feeling and truth and it also inquires destination of human being.There is a lot of silence in Vali's work.Recently she started painting still life and landscapes: The painters who have in fluenced Vali's work are:Emil Nolde for his free, spontaneous and very beautiful watercolors; Oskar Kokoschka for the harmony of his colors behind and around his subjects;Georges Rouault for the way he paints, violently and roughly and his way of recording the misery of opressed and poor people;;Marlène Dumas for the choise of her subjects(notions of identity)and for the power and strength of her paintings; Giorgos Bouzianis(Greek and drawings. dead in 1952) for the transcedance and the ultimate sens of being one can feel in all his paintings Cy Twombly for his inner vision. Cecily Brown for her subject.