Chryssa Verghi

Chryssa Verghi

She was born in born in Athens n 1959. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens under Dimitris Mytaras, and Nikos Kessanlis. She continued her studies in Interior Design at the Fine Arts School of California State University of Long Beach, USA, and continued her studies in Painting at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France, under Pierre Carron.

Her art was shaped through direct observation and close contact with the natural landscape. Her paintings, usually in large dimensions, indicate a personal experiential relationship with nature, expressed not only through recognizable images, but also through the photochromatic gestures that dominates her style. Her works maintains a sense of closeness to the natural world and she converts the painting’s surface into a part of nature, inviting the viewer to share the immediacy of her experience. The search of light remains her main concern, which she seeks through the leaf movements, in the water flow or the in the colour variations of the Greek landscape.

Her works can be found in the Greek Parliament, the Greek National Gallery, the ‘’Megaro Maximou’’ (the Prime Minister’s office), the Benaki Museum, the Florina Museum of Modern Art, the Kouvoutsakis Gallery, the Moschandreou Gallery, the Frissiras Museum, the Agricultural Bank of Greece Collection, the AGET Heraklis Group of Companies Collection, the Interamerican Collection, and other private museums and collections in Greece and abroad.