Margarita Lypiridou

“I cannot remember a time I was not scribbling, drawing or playing with paints. This is my way of being, my way of staying alive and sane." Lypiridou's professional life started as a graphic designer and illustrator, but she soon realized that she had to commit to what felt inside her was the right...

“I cannot remember a time I was not scribbling, drawing or playing with paints. This is my way of being, my way of staying alive and sane." Lypiridou's professional life started as a graphic designer and illustrator, but she soon realized that she had to commit to what felt inside her was the right path. Lypiridou's first exhibition was in 1995 in her native Greece. Since then she has studied and worked with a large variety of media, materials and techniques, she has been participating in solo and group exhibitions and her work is part of collections across Europe and North America.

Lypiridou's current work consists of different series of semi-abstract landscapes and figures. "A Place To Wander", "Fluid Scapes", "Affinities" are all series of paintings that become a mind space, a meeting place, a site to wonder and to wander, the locus of gathering and exchange. The spectator is invited to participate actively in the making of meaning. She works with layers upon layers of acrylic, oil, wax and a variety of crayons, scraping and re-applying colour multiple times, constantly revealing and concealing different parts of the painting, in an attempt to create visual and spatial relationships among the different elements, to render visible the tentative, the fluid, the ephemeral.