The ecoSuites portrait series

2019, dimensions: 120x90cm, tempera on canvas.

Each ecoSuite features its own unique portrait of people wearing traditional Greek folk costumes. Local artist Achilleas Mesaikos paints with strong outlines and a bright colour pallet, to develop a series of distinctive, figurative portraits. With a technique between byzantine iconography and pop-art portraiture, these figures stand confident, looking you in the eyes, like super heroes or new age celebrities.

The large size of the paintings makes the portraits visible from the swimming pool. The inside walls of each ecoSuite become the gallery for an outdoors exhibition.