Monday, April 7, 2025 – Painter Giola Pitta is the newest member of the “Color in the Water” community, dedicated to promoting visual artists whose primary medium of expression is watercolor.
Panagiota (Giola) Pitta is originally from Cyprus. She completed her general education there, while also taking correspondence painting lessons with painter Takis Sideris (ABC School). During her school years, she participated in painting competitions, winning awards twice in both Pan-Cypriot and Pan-Hellenic competitions. At the end of her secondary education, she was admitted to the School of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). During her studies, she apprenticed with painters Sotiris Sorogas and Vlassis Caniaris.
In her professional career, she combined her love of painting with her architectural work, producing hundreds of perspective drawings for exterior and interior building views, both for her own projects and those of her colleagues. These perspective drawings were made either in black and white using ink and pencils, or more often in color using watercolor, tempera, brushes, and airbrush. Alongside her professional activity and up to the present, she has participated successfully in fourteen group painting exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
In an artistic statement accompanying the announcement of her joining the community, Ms. Pitta notes:
“Painting is a way to express my feelings and thoughts, as they arise from observing the surrounding reality or from imagination. It begins as an intellectual activity, which is then transferred onto paper through the sensitive and ideal medium of watercolor. Watercolor allows me to achieve infinite shades in my work through successive transparent layers of color. The fluidity of water, depending on its amount, enables the blending of pigments even directly on the paper with the help of the brush and other ‘tools,’ such as a natural twig, a piece of natural sponge, or some curly foliage. I strive to develop a dialogue between the elements of depiction in order to stimulate the viewer’s mind and emotions. To this end, I combine complementary colors with neutrals, warm with cool shades, shadows with light, in a composition where I observe, as much as possible, the harmonious proportions of the golden ratio. The morphological vocabulary and themes of my works vary from natural and urban landscapes to objects, plants, and human activities, which I arrange sometimes diagonally, sometimes in curves, and sometimes in central compositions.”
Contact details for the artist
Email: chlorokostas.pitta@gmail.com
T: 6948698602
