WHO . HOW . WHY
I am a painter and a designer. Sometimes those two worlds overlap, sometimes they live separately, but they come from the same place: a need to create something beautiful.
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Beauty is what drives me. I try to notice it, to sit with it, and capture it. I want my work to evoke simple, positive feelings. I don’t want my creations to shout or require interpretation. I want them simply to be beautiful.
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Designing objects like The Bag is another way to translate what moves me into something tangible, which I see as wearable art rather than fashion - a small token for people who love beauty as much as I do.
When it comes to my leather creations, I design each piece and bring them to life by hand. I value craftsmanship and quality. The process is slow and meticulous. It stands in quiet opposition to fast fashion, to mass production, and to the endless pursuit of branded and disposable things. ​​
I am a self-taught painter and artisan. I’ve loved drawing and creating things by hand since childhood. I began painting more seriously in my twenties, experimenting with a variety of media. Today I mostly use acrylic paint, because my studio is in my home and I don't want the fumes associated with oils, but also because acrylics allow me to work intuitively and in layers.
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I grew up in Greece, surrounded by light, landscapes, and an ancient sense of form and proportion. Later, I lived in France, where beauty took on a new depth. Eventually we moved to the United States, where I fell in love with the pioneering spirit - the openness, the forward motion, the belief that creation is always possible.
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I work from my home studio on Long Island, New York.
I have found happiness in motherhood, in my husband, in the creative process and in those moments when inspiration strikes - that urgent feeling that something wants to be made.