BIO

Militsa Tomasovits is an interior architect, lighting designer and an artist, born and raised in Athens, Greece. She is currently a PhD Candidate at School of Applied Arts, Hellenic Open University of Athens where she formerly attained her Master of Arts in ‘Lighting Design and Multimedia’. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in ‘Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts and Design’ from Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Technological Educational Institute of Athens. She has also obtained her diploma in Byzantine Iconography after her studies under the iconographer Konstantinos Sakkas.

Her passion for art was expressed in early childhood and she was mentored by different tutors. Ever since, she has been involved and very active in arts, especially painting. She has attended various drawing and painting classes at different art schools, including Plakas Art Center and The Aegean Center for the Fine Arts under Jun-Pierre Shiozawa.

She has worked and has been specialised in interior architecture and lighting design for several years. In parallel, she has also worked as a ceramic and porcelain painter in Paros. Moreover, she is currently acting as a tutor and is holding painting classes to young students.

She has spent a significant amount of time in Paros where she firstly experienced her love in painting flowers. Her mother was the person who imparted, during the years, the knowledge of the healing properties of Greek flowers and herbs and how to locate these natural treasures in the natural Greek landscape.

Artist Statement

My passion and love for nature are channeled through my paintings which give an insight of how nature can positively affect someone inward and outward. My purpose is to show my personal vision of the world.

Flowers are definitely my personal muse. I adore their vibrant colors and unique scents and geometry which outline their stunning beauty and purity. The variety of Greek flowers and herbs have become definitely my greatest source of inspiration.

I usually prefer to work on multilayered watercolor paintings. Watercolor is my favorite medium of creative expression, because of the immediacy of the medium that helps me express my feelings and vision spontaneously.