Athina Soultani
Biography
Contemporary realist artist Athina Soultani is one award winning realist artist from Athens, Greece .
She work with graphite pencils, coloured pencils, soft pastels and Aquarelle. The concept of her art is to pass a positive message for this world and for one better world .She want to touch with her art and travel the people to see the beauties that this world have and give people hope for a better more peaceful world and for a better quality of life without the stress of the modern people. Art is always a way of expressing herself and passing the message that in these difficult years we can achieve more as individuals and as nations, if we truly believe in ourselves.
Group Exhibitions:
Greece:
April 2018 Italian Cities with Graphite Pencils Psiri ,Athens ,Greece
April 2019 Still life Paintings with Coloured Pencils Psiri,Athens,Greece
Abroad:
July 2019 Exhibition Patching Art Center in Nottingham,England
Children 2021 Online Exhibition and Publication in Canada 30 October until 10 December 2021
ATIM’S TOP 60 Masters Virtual Exhibition in New York June 2022
Tokyo Tower Art Fair Virtual Exhibition 2023 10March -12 March
Awards:
Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine Contest Award June 2020 in France
Art Ideal Magazine Contest Award December 2020 in France.
Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine Contest Award October 2021 in France
1st Position Award in Children 2021 Exhibition in Canada 2021
Dali’s Mustache Diploma III Prize (3rd Position) January 2022 in Spain
ATIM’S TOP 60 Masters Award June 2022 in New York
Publications:
Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine Issue 20 in France September 2020
Observica Canadian Art Magazine Issue 9 December 2020
Paint SAA Uk Art Magazine March 2021 Issue
Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine issue 22 March 2021 in France
Artistonish Contemporary Art Magazine Issue 13 August 2021 in Canada
Art Tour International Magazine ATIM’S TOP 60 Masters 2022 Issue in USA
Art Tour International Magazine Winter Issue Year 2023 in USA
What’s your Background?
I am a Greek realist artist based in Athens.
I was born in Athens and studied economics in Athens.
When I finished my studies I started to work in a bank as a clerk and felt the need to start creating art due to the stress that I had from my work.
I started then to attend some art lessons but a year later I stopped them because lack of time.
I decided then to start working at home when I had free time doing a lot of practice.I am more of self taught artist. I developed my art skills alone and reached in a high artistic level, professional.
After that ,I started to participate in art contests and my art quickly started to become famous.
I have done Exhibitions in England ,USA,Canada and recently in Japan.
My art has been published a lot of times in art magazines all over the world and has won many awards in France, USA, Canada, Spain and other countries.
What does it mean to you to win the Collectors Art Prize?
It is a very important prize for every artist and sure it is mean a lot to me to win this prize because this will help me to connect with more audiences all over the world so that more people become familiar with me and my art.
What do you think is the role of the art in the world today?
Role of the art in the world today is not correct.
Art today is without meaning ,without something to say, without wake up consciousness and feelings.
It shouldn’t be fast ,easy and only to please the eye.
It shouldn’t be a fast consumer good.
Art should be more qualitative and pass clear messages about the world we live.
Art should be to wake up consciousness and leave one clear and true mark as art.
What would it be if you could change one thing about the art world?
If I could charge one thing about the art world this would be the way that people see the art today .
I am a realist artist and I always create qualitative art and try through my art to show people the beauty the world has to offer , to wake up feelings and give people hope for a more peaceful world.
What are your most significant professional achievements?
I think that my most professional achievements are :
First when I won the year 2019 in one very difficult International art contest at the TALP Art Competition and done my first Exhibition abroad in Nottingham,England and second when I won the year 2022 in USA at the ATIMS TOP 60 MASTERS AWARDS one award as artist and saw the June some days before the Ceremony my face and my paintings on a billboard at the Times Square in New York.
What do you wish to tell viewers about your work that might not come out explicitly? What do you hope to inspire with your artwork?
I am an artist who want to make people to see the world with different eyes and make them through my art to feel things that they have forgotten or they never have feel and think, things that haven’t connection with the today world where everything is fast, easy ,crazy without meaning just for the impressions.One fast consumer world I can say so what I want to inspire with my artwork is exactly this :
To wake up memories that people have forgotten from one world that don’t exist any more or their never have felt and change the art world.
What advice would you give to the upcoming generation of artists?
Be authentic ,be yourself and love what you are doing instead of trying to figure out what the world will respond well to. Get more education and knowledge as an artist to become better and more professional to whatever you do.
Be open in new things and things that will change the way that the people see the art.
Be innovator and bring fresh ideas that will change the art world.
In what direction would you like to see your career go in the next five years?
I want to give priority to my art to create more qualitative art. I want to be innovator with fresh ideas that will change the art world in this direction I will work the next five years!!!I want also to have more opportunities for Exhibitions in Greece,England ,France and Spain to connect with more audiences and learn more about my art and me .
Country Greece
Website https://www.athinasoultani.com
