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Greek Art Exhibition Featuring Felicia Aroney and Yanni Souvatzoglou at Art2Muse Gallery

Greek-born Felicia Aroney is using acrylics and oils to simultaneously depict her Greek heritage and her Australian upbringing. With the Australian Ferry Wren bird, often found in Australian backyards, taking up the foreground of her paintings, the artist displays backgrounds like damaged walls, ancient ruins and a representation of the process of history and passing of time in Greece.

During her trip to Athens in 2011, Aroney met by chance with the sculptor Yanni Souvatzoglou, whose works of art became a deep source of inspiration for her.

Back in Australia and motivated by his work, Aroney introduced the idea of a joint “Greek” flavored art exhibition to the owner of Art2Muse Gallery, Katrina Hampton. The result is the launching of a new exhibition at the Galler from March 21 to April 3, 2012, with the inaugurating event taking place on Thursday, March 22, from 6pm to 8pm.

About the Artists

Yanni Souvatzoglou
A Greek from abroad (Constantinople) and son of a cotton merchant, Yanni Souvatzoglou inherited his talent from his mother, a portrait painter. Yanni experimented from a very young age on fabric paintings, and moved into graphic design where he was introduced to industrial photographic reproductions, developing almost three dimensional images.

Yanni Souvatzoglou’s skill in graphic arts served as a platform for his sculptural structures. At the same time Yanni attends art studies in Athens under the supervision of Prof. P. Tetsis.

Influenced mainly by the Minoan and Cycladic era, he manages to often evoke those images in his concepts. Since 1980 he maintains an atelier for multiple techniques and art applications, however he has not abandoned commercial design, and many corporations have trusted his creative imagination with various manifestations.

His art is collected worldwide. He has enjoyed major shows and been awarded prizes for several pieces of his work, and many galleries across the world sell his art.

Felicia Aroney
Time is an undercurrent which is felt, seen and heard in Felicia Aroney`s artwork, a reflection of memory, experiences and what she honours in the present. Felicia’s technique and approach to her work is richly layered, using oils and acrylics to create depth and a sense of antiquity which evolves the onlooker’s curiosity as to what lies beneath the multi-faceted layers.

Felicia’s latest work is influenced by her European heritage and numerous visits to Europe, where she studied aged and damaged walls. The layers of peeling paint fascinated Felicia’s perception of the layers of time, and at the same time each individual wall evoked its own interesting composition.

Back home in Sydney, Felicia coupled the textured backgrounds with the “familiar”. She has added the wonderfully organic shapes and details of fruit, and the lovely silhouette of the Australian garden bird, the “Fairy Wren”, both familiar with her Australian background. Felicia’s work is rich with colour, layers and texture.

Using a palette knife, she mixes her own colours and applies one coat of paint at a time. Each colour is left to dry before the next is applied. Felicia carefully layers, allowing some of the previous layers to reveal themselves. This technique is applied over and over, creating an aged, damaged appearance, much like the ancient ruins in Greece; this being the soul and major influence of her work.

The wonderfully organic shapes of still life, and the Australian Fairy wren bird are placed on these backgrounds, much like a ‘stamp’, representing Felicia’s Australian background and bringing her two worlds together. Felicia was trained in fine arts at Curtin University WA. She also graduated with an honours degree in Graphic Design. Felicia worked in “design”, selecting fabrics and putting together story boards, which gave her good grounding with colour, texture and design. She has won five art prizes and has held successful solo and group exhibitions.

About Art2Muse Gallery
Art2Muse Gallery is a vibrant art gallery which represents over 70 Australian and international established artists at an affordable price.

The Art2Muse Gallery is on the main road leading to Double Bay, Rose Bay and Vaucluse from the city. It is a high profile space with wrap-around windows on the corner of Manning Road and New South Head Road. The gallery is lit day and night and highly visible to passing traffic with ample free parking for visitors. The opening hours are 10am – 4pm, Wednesday to Saturday, and until 6pm on Thursdays.

Art2Muse Gallery has been operating since 2001, holding regular exhibitions at various Sydney venues including Simmer on the Bay, The Tom Dunne Gallery, the Russian Consulate in Woollahra and most recently a Pop Up Exhibition on South Dowling Street, Sydney. Art2Muse was established by Katrina Hampton, who combines her background in marketing with passion for art to showcase established artists.

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