User:Ioannis Antoniadis Inspirational Art

Ioannis Antoniadis was born in Thessalonica, a major city of Hellas (Greece) in February 1964. He experienced the hard educational system of his time, the Hellenic society deeply divided by the pain inflicted by two world wars, one civil and a dictatorship but also the supreme pleasure in bathing in the ancient light of his country. He arrived to London 2 years after his Army Service as an officer, in May 1990. There he complimented his visionary quest in painting with other studies, the teachings of the East and the philosophies of ancient Greece and Egypt. He reached a turning point while working on the Kabbalistic symbology.

“…As I was working on a series of pictures based on ancient archetypal ideals, I became aware of a new faculty in myself. I found later that its name is Intuition. I have been told by my teacher that it implies to the spirit within. The spirit who moves the life of every human. Since then my work became a continual conversation with my spiritual self. As I look deeper into a frame of pure activity a blank canvas or a piece of paper I feel like I am looking into a luminous white world. The more I look the more I feel that a transformation taking place. My mind becomes like a prism translating white light to millions of possibilities, colors, ideas, feelings, and forms.”

This faculty has enabled him to paint the essence of ideas and concepts in an unprecedented depth. This spontaneous creative activity enabled him to bypass the interference of the thoughts and the likes/dislikes of the emotional nature penetrating deeply in an unknown territory and came in touch with a Mysterious World.

”… These visions are not the product of fancy but instead that of a spontaneous and dynamic communication with that pure light which lives within. As I create those paintings it is revealed to me a world of inner beauty, wisdom and truth. This has been my way to understand better the universal principles and participate in the magnificent celebration of Life.”

Ioannis has a passion for the inspiring factor in the art... His work evokes ideas, moods and emotions through the harmony of imagery, colour and space. Within the intimacy of his work, there is an attempt to establish a mysterious connection between the viewer and the creative spirit who lives in our mind.

He has exhibited widely in Greece and UK and his paintings, prints and drawings can be found in private and public collections in the UK, Europe and the States. Ioannis lives currently in East Grinstead, W. Sussex, UK. His website is www.ioannisantoniadis.com