| Katerina Mertikas (nee
Patrinos), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, born in Tripoli,
Greece 1957. Now permanent resident of Ottawa, Canada. Her highly
stylized art leaves one with a smile which is much like Katerina's
optimistic, happy character. Her husband and two daughters are
often the inspiration behind many of her paintings. She paints
childhood's fleeting and precious moments, hoping that in each
painting someone may recognize themselves in their past or perhaps
see their children enjoying their day. The true naive painter
creates spontaneously and freely out of the urgings of the heart.
The originality and poetic immediacy of such work delight by
the unconscious sincerity with which private fantasies have
been expressed. Particularly naive expressionism exhibits not
only decorative and narrative simplicity, but, above all, imaginative
vividness and infinite delight in discovery. Her work is sold
in many fine galleries in Canada. |
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