Fotini Zarkanitou
I was born in 1960 in Athens. My special love for art was expressed through painting. As a child I remember myself holding brush long before having contact with pencil, and rows in school notebooks, were the occasion for my first caricatures.

Education – Business Activities

1978-1981   Art Studies (painting, tempera, oil, watercolor) under the guidance of Professors in School of Fine Arts Riga and Apergi.
Studies in History of Art, Architecture and Interior Design.
1980-1985    Parallel dealing With Ceramic Art in art workshops. Ceramic Sculpture apprenticeship under the guidance of the great sculptor K. Zourla.
1983-1984    Following Ceramics Seminars under the auspices of ΕΟΜΜΕΧ.
1984    Authorization to exercise as a professional Ceramic Art.
1987-2009    Running Ceramics Laboratory and Fine Arts with commercial activity in Greece and exports to America, Cyprus, Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, China and Hawaii.
1999-2007    Member and Shareholder of Cooperative ceramists Maroussi.
Member of the Chamber of Crafts.

Distinctions

Craft Award in Team National Exhibition Pottery Ceramics – Maroussi, Athens.

Exhibitions

  • “TECHNIMA» for years
  • Art section by Papageorgiou “MEK” – Peania for five years
  • National Exhibition of Art Pottery-Ceramics
  • Gallery J.K. Kolonaki square, Athens
  • Cultural Center Pottery-Ceramics, Erithrea.
  • Cultural Center, Parikia and Naoussa, Paros
  • Gallery “Apothiki”, Pendeli
  • Spiropoulio Foundation, Kifisia

Personal Exhibition

Twice in Cultural Center of Catholic Cathedral of Naxos, under the auspices of Bishop.

Recent activity

  • Artistic interventions
  • Interior Design
  • Wall painting- Fresco
  • Abstract art on wall