Artists
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.―Pablo Picasso
From Canvas to Silk: Transforming Art into Collectibles
At HANAPPE House of Art, our limited-edition silk scarves are born from collaborations with international artists. Each creator brings their unique vision, transforming fine artworks into wearable designs that blend culture, creativity, and luxury.
Despoina Isaia
Despoina Isaia is a Greek visual artist born in Athens in 1974. She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1999 and has lived and worked in Glasgow since 2013. Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, Isaia explores memory, intimacy and the emotional resonance of materials. Her practice brings together paper, fabric, hair, leather and found domestic objects through processes of cutting, stitching, binding and assembling. Drawing upon the familiar and the personal, her work transforms fragments of domestic life into ambiguous narratives that move between tenderness and unease. Through material, gesture and recurring figurative elements, she explores ideas of care, vulnerability, time and transformation.
Fotis Flevotomos
Fotis Flevotomos is a Greek visual artist and musician whose practice unfolds through multi-sensory narratives that explore the many ways perception shapes our experience of the world. Working with color, sound, and spatial relationships, his research investigates equiluminant color interactions, recurring visual motifs, and the dynamics of space as a perceptual field. In 2013, he began collaborating with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center to design multi-sensory workshops for people with low vision or blindness. In 2014, he initiated, in collaboration with the Benaki Museum, a monthly program for visitors who are blind or partially sighted, expanding access to artistic experience through alternative sensory pathways. Through this work, Flevotomos approaches space not as a static environment but as a living continuum of motion, sound, and visual resonance.
Lazarus Siakos
Lazarus Siakos is a Greek creative practitioner, whose practice centers on collage and the development of his signature concept, Brillantism. Drawing on archetypal imagery and the seductive allure of gemstones, he investigates themes of fatal attraction and perpetual temptation. His works are constructed through a painstaking process in which each fragment—sometimes as small as a one‑millimeter circle—is placed with meticulous intention. As these countless elements accumulate, they generate a delicate, painterly surface where color shifts like brushstrokes and narratives emerge organically. Brillantism becomes both a technique and a state of mind: a celebration of luminosity, precision, and the transformative power of detail.
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Maria Letsiou
Maria Letsiou is a contemporary Greek artist, educator and researcher, whose work explores the emotional and symbolic dimensions of nature, memory, and transformation. Working primarily in mixed media and painting, she creates poetic compositions that blur the boundaries between abstraction and figuration. Her delicate use of color and texture evokes an atmosphere of introspection, inviting viewers into quiet, contemplative spaces. Letsiou’s artistic practice reflects a deep sensitivity to the rhythms of the natural world and the fragility of human experience. Her works have been exhibited in galleries and cultural spaces across Greece and Europe.
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Rob Kesseler
Rob Kesseler is an award-winning visual artist and Emeritus Professor of Art, Design & Science at Central Saint Martins, London. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and an Ambassador for the Royal Microscopical Society. Based between London and Corfu, for over twenty-five years he has collaborated with botanical scientists and molecular biologists around the world, exploring the living world at a microscopic level. His practice is driven by a desire to reveal and share aspects of nature too small to be seen by the naked eye: exquisite forms, astonishing patterns and structural diversity, and the remarkable strategies through which living organisms grow and survive. Kesseler has exhibited extensively across the UK, Europe, North and South America. His publications include an award-winning series of books on pollen, seeds and fruit, created with Dr Madeline Harley and Dr Wolfgang Stuppy of Kew and published by Papadakis. Read more: Rob Kesseler
Zoe Keramea
Zoe Keramea is a Greek visual artist whose practice spans drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics.Her work explores the poetics of line, geometry, and perception, often transforming simple forms into complex, meditative structures. Through meticulous hand-drawn patterns, folded paper constructions, and mathematically inspired compositions, Keramea investigates the tension between order and fluidity, stillness and movement. Her visual language is both precise and imaginative, inviting viewers to engage with the hidden rhythms and quiet harmonies that shape the world. Keramea’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in several major public and private collections.
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