Elena Griva

Elena Griva enjoys living and creating in Doxato, Drama. She is a mother of three children. Since 2000 she has a degree in Italian Language and Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in 2013 she graduated with honours from the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the University of Macedonia, in the painting workshop of I. Ziogas. She is also involved in book illustration and works in education as a visual artist for special and formal education. She has participated in many exhibitions, both in Greece and abroad.

Her work is a personal imprint of mainly experiential experiences. Elements of motherhood, provincial serenity, natural and immediate material are evident. Symbolisms, values and emotions alternate on the raw canvas. The "simple greats" of life, are for the artist, a unique material of necessary recording. And this is what she strives to serve. Lifelong.