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 free-lance 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

 

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

 

 

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