Artists / Olivia Krimpas
hand coloured etching on steel and zinc
Olivia Krimpas trained at Chelsea School of Art and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. In the mid seventies she moved to Greece where she worked as a freelance painter and the director of a dance centre.
She has shown many times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition as well as The Barbican Centre, ArtsHouse Gallery, The Battersea Art Fair, London Print Studio and the International Print Bienalle, Hungary. Her work is in many private collections in the USA, Chilie, Germany, Belgium, France and Greece.
"I develop my prints by combining three processes: painting, drawing and etching. These enable me to find the fluid, rhythmic quality of objects and people in action. One of my preoccupations is the definition of moving forms in space. This sense of movement has been inspired by my history of working in dance."
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008
- Originals, Mall Galleries, London
- Edinburgh Art Fair, with Alicia David Contemporary Art
2007
- Gallery Tresco, Scilly Isles
2006
- Mini print show, London Print Studio
2004/5
- Hampstead Community Centre, Teaching, Drawing and Painting
2003/4
- Mini print show, London Print Studio
- Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
2002/3
- Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
2000/1
- Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
2000
- ArtsHouse Printmakers, Group Exhibition, London
1998
- Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
- ‘Hommage a Felix Rops', France
1997
- 4th International Biennale of Gyor, Print Exhibition, Hungary.
1995
- London Print Studio, Mini Print Show
1994
- Barbican Centre, Group exhibitions of paintings, drawings and prints
- Hyde Park Gallery, Group exhibition of print-making and illustration
1980/88
- Joint Artistic Director of The Dance Workshop, Athens, Greece
1969
- Guildford Festival Exhibition of paintings and drawings