ATHENS – For centuries people have been coming to Greece for various reasons and unexpectedly fall in love with the country. It happens with villages and islands too. The story of painter Nikolaos A. Houtos’ love affair with the island of Siphnos was expressed in paintings at a recent exhibition «ωχρα+μπλε» at the Ersis Gallery in Kolonaki.
Despite setting his Alexandria Quartet novels – in Egypt, author Lawrence Durrell used his rich palette of words to describe experiences he had in Greece. Henry Miller’s Colossus of Marousi was another colorful but verbal expression of an artist’s Greek Passion. Houtos uses paint – for Siphnos, as the exhibition’s title suggests, his images glow with mainly two colors, ochre, signifying the soil, and the Aegean blue that christens sea and sky.
“In recent years many Americans, Greeks and non-Greeks, have visited Siphnos,” Houtos told The National Herald.
“My story is rather mythical,” he said of the decision to move much of his life to the Island in the middle of the Aegean whose light impacts souls, canvases and photographs alike.
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