Elpida Chalioti

I am an artist based in Athens, Greece, exploring the space between dreams, emotions and the human experience.

My paintings emerge from an intuitive and deeply personal process. I am drawn to unusual figures, animals, faces and symbolic forms that seem to belong somewhere between reality and an imagined world. Rather than beginning with a fixed narrative, I allow the image to develop organically, often discovering its meaning through the process of painting.

My work explores connection, identity, emotion and the relationships between the visible and the unseen. I am particularly interested in the ambiguity of dream imagery — familiar elements can become strange, intimate or unsettling, leaving room for each viewer to create their own interpretation.

For me, painting is a way of giving form to something that is difficult to express in words.

Are my paintings my dreams, or are my dreams my paintings?

BSc Nursing
BSc Psychology
MSc Psychotherapy CBT