Journey to Xanthi

While modern perception pictures ancient Greece as stark white marble, their cities and statues were actually vibrantly painted with bold reds, blues, and golds. For a real, physical Greek destination known today as the "city of thousands of colours," it refers to Xanthi in northeastern Greece

The work is Acrylic on canvas, rose pink background with a rough lime green liner brush pattern. Sides painted to match the front, wired across the back ready to hang.

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Athena’s practice moves between modern minimalist abstraction and bold, naïve landscapes—works driven by confident colour and distilled form. Shapes become anchors, fields of pigment become space, and composition does the talking: pared back, but never quiet.

She tends to work just outside the spotlight. With a foundation in the creative arts and a distinctly multi-disciplined mind, Athena is always chasing new techniques, materials, and ways of seeing. Step into her studio and you’ll find more than paint—sculpture in progress, textiles and ceramics, sketchbooks of illustration—an ecosystem of making where ideas migrate from one medium to the next.

At the heart of her work is a devotion to looking backward in order to move forward. Athena studies how ancient makers observed the world and the universe—how they tried to name the unknowable, to map wonder into meaning. Because what we call science now, once lived as magic.