Map of Ancient Spata

Part of my Map series this work depicts the ancient city of Spata which was Sparta was one of the most dominant of all the Greek city-states, and is most often remembered for their athletic and militaristic values

Acrylic on canvas. Pattern is not full painted to the edges of the canvas. The edges of the painting are painted white. Comes with a wire 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.