Perceptions Print

Charoula Nikolaidou is a visual artist based in Thessaloniki, Greece. She graduated from Visual and Applied Arts of Aristotle University in 2010. In 2021, her work was published in international Bluebee Magazine, Volume 6, Amaryllis, in Voice of Artists Magazine, Issue #12, by Artitnet and Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 15, April 2021. She has exhibited in London, Paris, Geneva, Marbella, Madrid, Iowa (USA), Cyprus and Greece. Her work has been collected extensively in private collections worldwide. My work interweaves figurative painting with a combination of abstract expressionism and elements of pop art and can be categorized into “luminous” paintings that incorporate vibrant colours of both figures and spaces. Colour definitely is the primary way to communicate emotion. I’m influenced by artists ranged from Egon Schiele, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. My work can be assessed as an active stage where the body and the spirit converge and diverge, the external and internal world, love - loneliness, emphatically emphasizing the animosity of life and the poetry of painting, as a cathartic value against agony. Perhaps some sort of narrative can be created by the viewer afterwards, but I like to not have a huge amount of control over this when making the works. I juxtapose colour and subject-matter to entice and stimulate thought and reflection, with an aim of challenging the audience’s perception.