Portrait: Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Painting

“My paintings belong to expressionism with a tendency towards realism.” Witnessing Evi Panteleon’s work, the spectator discovers artist’s love for color, motion and light at first glance. One can detect the different type of tensions and contradictions of light, color, space and density. The last fifteen years, Evi Panteleon's painting focuses on creating works based on anthropocentric themes in which she creates an expressionistic mood in abstract ways. The artistic result is supported by the following factors: constant information about artistic performances, search and study of the history of art and experimentation with the aim of deepening and freeing its design, touch and color. Evi Panteleon's paintings belong to expressionism with a tendency towards realism. Every creation of her and every work, is an inner search of oneself, subconsciously or not. Evi Panteleon born, live and work in Loutraki Korinthias, Greece. She is a graduate of the University of Fine Arts, Florina, Greece. She has received a Master's degree in painting from the University of Fine Arts, Florina, Greece. Postgraduate of the Department of Social Studies of the Management of Cultural Units of the Hellenic Open University of Greece, and continues her studies as a PhD student at the University of Western Attica (Greece), at the School of Applied Arts and Culture. She has taken part in many International Art Fairs, Solo and Group Exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her artworks can be found in public and private spaces (). She has worked at all levels of public and private education, as an Art teacher (). Her Atelier and Painting Workshop, EPsilon Art Studio, where both young and old students learn painting, founded also EPsilon Art Gallery (2011). There she curates and organizes art exhibitions (individual, group, international exhibitions of Greece and foreign artists). All the artists, both established and young ones, are mainly from the field of painting and sculpture. ( & ). Regularly she participates as a speaker and organizer at artistic events, workshops and festivals, both charitable and non-charitable nature. She is a member of the Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries (PSAT). Every two to three years she presents her new work with a different thematic section. The stages of creating a work are as follows: She designs the subject that interests her. She likes color and wants to dominate her work.