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Jean V. Hiol & George Charalampous

05/04/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Jean V. Hiol & George Charalampous to its Artists’ Alley!


Jean Valery Hiol studied Graphic Design at European Univercity Cyprus. He got into illustrations and comics after his studies and did some small projects. He is interested in learning always new things and collaborating with other artists. His style is non realistic, surreal and cartoonish.


To see more of Jean’s individual work you can visit his Instagram.

George Charalampous was born in 1993 and he is an artist from Cyprus. He studied at the University of the West of England (Alexander College) and got a degree in Fine Arts. George also obtained a BTEC Foundation DIploma in art and design from Aigaia School of Art & Design.

To see more of George’s individual work here.

Jean and George united their work and formed a team by the time they started to act as a team in various other matters and experiences as well; like the vagrant actions in the streets of the neighbourhood, the weird scenes they faced, the solutions they found, the injustices and discrimination they went through and their drunken night. In other words, simply life. Their primary interest is the portrayal of unique and atypical art and not necessarily the “pretty” and “aesthetic”, nor the industrial and commercial side of art. We imagine a form of art that is free and spontaneous in terms of expression and style, and unrestricted by meaning and essence. Some are portraying bizarre dreams and others are just paper-pads containing fragmented nightmares of our sleep. A number of them are childhood traumas, phobias and fears, drunken thoughts and others just comforting fantasies and illusions from lousy conversations.

 

Yiangos Parmenides & Aliki Papafotiou

05/04/2019 by

We are excited to have Yiangos Parmenides & Aliki Papafotiou to this year’s Artists’ Alley!

Yiangos is an 18 year-old self-taught artist who loved drawing and superheroes from a kid and decided to blend them into action packed pieces of art.

Aliki is both self-taught and also has been taking art classes. She usually chooses to draw fantasy which depicts beautifully with her unique style.

Yiangos and Aliki started collaborating years ago, as they were both taking the same art classes.

Visit Yiangos and Aliki‘s instagram pages to see more of their artwork!

N U G G E T (Victoria Ganshin)

05/04/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have N U G G E T (Victoria Ganshin) join this year’s Artists’ Alley!

Victoria Ganshin is a 17 year-old self taught artist and she has been drawing since she was 3 years old. She is an illustrator looking for an opportunity to display her art. She mostly works digitally. Victoria is a student at the 3rd technical school in Nicosia and she is currently working on a comic book that she is looking forward to displaying in this year’s Cyprus Comic Con!

You can see more of Victoria’s artwork on her Facebook and Instagram.

Anestis Mavrommatis – Parasidis Art

05/04/2019 by

We want to welcome Anestis Mavrommatis – Parasidis Art to our Artists’ Alley!

Αnestis Mavrommatis-Parasidis was born in 1994 in Thessaloniki (Greece) and still lives there. In 2019 he graduated from the School of History & Archaeology, of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.

From 2012 to 2016 he was a member of “Inkorrekt”, a group of independent comic creators, taking part in their activities and comic exhibitions in collaboration with the French Institute of Thessaloniki.

He is currently working on an illustration project named as “The Harlequins”. Those illustrations and other art prints, vinyl stickers and screen prints on t-shirts and tote bags, will be available at the Artists’ Alley of the Cyprus Comic Con. Be there people!!!

To see more of Anestis’ artwork, visit his Facebook page.

Vasilis Gerkou

31/03/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Vasilis Gerkou to its Artists’ Alley!

Vasilis is 25 years old and he comes from Greece. He says that painting is his life. He started to draw when he was small kid and he loves to draw comic, characters, worlds, concept arts and generally illustrations…but his biggest love is comics. He is self-taught and he is continuing to learn by himself! Everyday he is doing travels with his pencils in the fantastic infinity with a lot of adventures! He has been in many exhibitions so far and he worked in many projects as a comic artist ,illustrator and concept artist. Some of the most recent ones includes the comic book ‘Runaround’ for the Pixabit entertainment and the last 7 months he has been working as a creative director, concept artist and illustrator in Adidas projects!!

Make sure to visit Vasilis’ deviantart page, Facebook and Instagram to see more of his work.