Stass Paraskos

Stass Paraskos (born 1933) is an artist from Cyprus, although much of his life was spent teaching and working in England.

Paraskos taught at Leeds and Leicester Polytechnic Schools and he was the founder of the Cyprus Summer School of Art and the founder and Principal of the Cyprus College of Art.

Once described by The Guardian newspaper as 'a peasant painter', Paraskos has often produced images that seem to tell of village life in Cyprus. Painted in rich colours, and using a simplified figurative style, many of his scenes might have almost fallen from the pages of Kazantakis. Yet Paraskos is also a sophisticated artist, educated in the West, but rooted in the East, who has successfully fused the visual traditions of Western Modernism with those of Byzantine Orthodoxy. From this, Paraskos has developed his own artistic language to take on a diverse range of themes, ranging from the political violence and violations of human rights that have marked his country's history, to religious experience and the often comic follies of modern mass tourism.

The exhibition will be inaugurated by Mrs. Fotini Papadopoulou on the 2nd of November at 19:30.

Opening Hours
Daily: 10:30 - 13:00 & 16:30 - 20:00
Saturday: 10:30 - 14:00