b.1964 –

Born in Athens in 1964, Maria Filopoulou studied painting in Paris at the Ecole Nationale supérieure Des Beaux-Arts under Leonardo Cremonini between 1984-1988. Her works are primarily based on her home country of Greece and can be found in collections worldwide.

Her representational art has a recurring theme of water, revelling in the process of creating three-dimensional images on a series of large, two-dimensional canvases. In her own words, she describes the happiness, relaxation and union with nature that is found in the water that she aims to convey through her much-admired work.