Athens Artist Takis Moraitis 

Hailing from Kephallonia and Milos, Takis Moraitis has been residing and working in Plaka at  129 Andrianou Street. His interest in painting was obvious during his early elementary years and he decided to continue on to a higher education in Greece. To perfect his dynamic talent he transferred his studies to the School of Arts in Rome and Paris where he studied in depth the modern and classical trends in painting.

These studies offered him lots of opportunities in working with and learning from many famous painters as a student, colleague and friend. His talent was soon recognized by such well-known art figures as George Kouzounis, Spiros Vasiliou and John Tsarouhis. Using their teachings and personal interference, they modulated the artist’s views into a designative approach that helped him develop his own individualistic skills concerning colors and lines.

What characterizes the paintings of Takis Moraitis are landscapes taken from the Ionian Islands and the Kyklades where the artist focuses on the elements of nature, represented exactly as the artist visions them. The light backgrounds blending romantic tone colors, used in his paintings, come to vivify the color proportion as they start from the land and the sea and work their way up to the firmament sky. Emphasizing the blue and white colors, each time, Takis Moraitis tends to show the attention he pays on the pure blue of the Mediterranean sky and of the white buildings that tend to embrace the coloration of the sun and its sheen on matter.

A visit to his studio at the end of Adrianou street in the Plaka is a treat and whether or not you are a lover of art should not be missed.