About Me
My art is a healing medium for the soul, for the heart, for health, and for everyday life. The watercolors soften my emotional injuries, smooth my anxiety for the future, and ease my fear for the unexpected. My creations are stories inspired by my daily life, inspired by my, almost cinematic, dreams.
I travel and observe fragments of earth from above. I paint nature as I imagine it, as I dream it, as I see it, and as I feel it. This experience breathes life into my soul. This is my offering of love, care, and energy to others. It helps me transcend illness, obstacle, or burden. This is my pathway to healing. My voyage of joy.
Water is the element which connects us all and gives life. The Aegean Sea surrounds me and connects me to mother nature. The tree trunks on the island of Crete, in Chania, found in my final MFA project, are a conduit to the light of my spirituality, the light of my mental health and healing. I keep on returning to that which gives me strength and inspires me to create and move forward.
Care Matters. Care is an exchange of love and affection; it is pure, unconditional, non-transactional, timeless. In the silence there is something we long for: care, love and friendship. This circle of life never ends - it is fluid and eternal. We cherish these moments of understanding, the beauty, ourselves, and all of creation.
I honor humanity and nature and all that is in them; However, there is always a juxtaposition, a contrast of emotions. Life (Eros) and death (Thanatos). Destruction and rebirth. My art is an expression of love, care, and devotion for self and others. Care for my surroundings, care for the people who support me all these years, care for the vulnerable ones, care for my family, care for those who helped me see inside me and realize the beauty of simple things that are transformed into matters of importance in my life and for my wellbeing.
The fluidity of my art is a testimony to freedom and to the beauty found in nature. Nothing is immoveable. This is how I choose to live life – fluid, open, with love and caring. This personal philosophy is expressed in my art through the language of watercolor.
Vivi Consta
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Education
2023-2025
Master of Fine Arts (MFA),
The Open College of the Arts (OCA) - The Open University, UK
1990-1992
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Statistics,
University of Wales College of Cardiff (UWCC), UK
1987-1990
Bachelor of Science (BSc Honours) in Mathematical Sciences,
University of Bath, UK
Artistic Engagement and Exhibitions
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In October 2023, I started studying a two-year online MA in Fine Art at The Open College of the Arts in UK (https://www.oca.ac.uk/). I strongly believe that through this program I will define my creative voice. A dream came true,
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In October 2023, I took part at in a group exhibition at the NueArt Gallery (gallerynueart.com) in Istanbul, Turkey with 4 watercolors,
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In October 2022, I took part at the exhibition of the NACADA Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, USA with a watercolor painting with the title: "Students are like flowers",
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Between September 2018 – July 2023, I took weekly art classes at The Art Flip School (https://theartflipschool.com/) exclusively working with watercolors,
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In June 2015, I composed my first joined illustration at a children’s book in the Greek language, “The mermaid”, www.bookstars.gr,
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In 2014, I organized my first solo art exhibition at the Pro-Art (www.proart.gr) gallery in Athens under the title “Cells and Dreams” (January 23 – February 20, 2014),
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In June 2014, I took part in the group art exhibition, organized by the “Bleutelia” art studio, during the Athens Theatre Summer Festival (http://greekfestival.gr/en/),
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From 2010 and up until 2016, I attended classes at the “Bleutelia” art studio in Athens (https://el-gr.facebook.com/Bleutelia/),
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In June 2013, I participated in the group exhibition for the ten-year anniversary of the “Bleutelia” art studio at the “Vryssaki Multi-purpose Art Space” (https://www.facebook.com/vryssaki) in Plaka, Athens,
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In June 2009 and 2010, I took part in two group exhibitions at The American College of Greece and since September 2011, in the yearly group exhibitions organized by the “Bleutelia” art studio,
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From December 2006 and for four years, I attended painting classes (mixed techniques) at Deree - The American College of Greece (www.acg.edu) at the School of Continuing Education.