Friday, September 12, 2025 – The community of the initiative Ink On Paper, which promotes visual artists who primarily express themselves through ink and paper, is pleased to announce that painter Chryssa Teliou is now among its members.

Chryssa Teliou studied English Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has been working as an English teacher in public education for the past 17 years. She always painted as an amateur, combining teaching with art by creating her own English textbooks and guiding her students to illustrate their own stories in English. For the past 12 years, she has been professionally involved in comics, collage, and painting. She has exhibited her works in more than 10 group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

In her artistic statement, she notes: “I started drawing by creating doodles, small ironic sketches that mock the absurdity of existence. This ironic perspective on life followed me into my current works, which is why the underlying principle behind my art could only be that of surrealism. Through my art, I deconstruct the world, creating mismatched faces and bodies that seem to have sprung from the wildest dreams. With ink, I capture the chaos of the mind and, at times, the terror of existence, from which I believe the only way out is through art. I am also excited by the ‘alteration’ of famous artworks, which I depict from the perspective of a child, using strange and ironic patterns. This is my manifesto — an ironic stance toward life and a view of it as something distant and irrational.“

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