Maria Eirini Grigora
- Country
- Greece
I’m a multidisciplinary artist who enjoys pottery, drawing, painting, crafts, jewelry making, and photography. Over the past year, I’ve been learning ceramics, which has become a source of calm and healing in my demanding everyday life. I love exploring how different art forms connect. Each piece I create reflects my emotions and curiosity for expression. Art is my way of expressing, experimenting, and learning to be my authentic self. It helps me bring beauty into daily life and, hopefully, light up others’ souls as well.
My favorite techniques in ceramis are sculpture and sgraffito. Therefore, I like to use different types of clays each time, learning about the benefits and the difficulties that they can provide as materials.
In addition to ceramics, I explore various forms of crafts, such as collage, drawing, painting, jewelry making, and crafting sketchbooks from recycled materials. These creative practices help me stay connected to myself, stay grounded, and express emotions that sometimes words cannot capture. My aim is to inspire and encourage others to embrace creativity and craftmanship with confidence, regaedless the background or experience level.
To me, art and crafts are powerful tools for connection, healing, and inclusion. I believe they have the potential to bring people together across cultures, offering a safe space for expression, and celebration of unique identities. Above all, arts and crafts can create space for love, freedom, inspiration and knowledge.
Artworks
This painting called "the harmony". It was created for participation in painting contest for new artists at Teloglion Foundation of Arts at Thessaloniki in Greece with the subject of the relationship of humans with animals. I chose to represent the need of human to explain different phenomena and events of life using mythological creatures and spiritual guides. The tai chi symbol of chinese culture is also here reflecting through a pair of asian dragons which are ancient symbol of strength and wisdom, as they holded a pearl between them. The pearl represents the birth and purity.
A small female sculpture symbolizing feminile strength, grace, and resilience, honoring the femininity. This piece celebrates women’s empowerment through quiet confidence, soft power, and the beauty of self-expression.
It is a set of two separate ceramic plates with feet underneath. The Chinese symbol of "tai chi," which means the balance of different types of energies, inspired their form. I chose dark blue and bright red as a base color in each plate. Different types of symbols and animals are scratched onto the surface of the plates using the technique called sgraffito. The shapes of animals and symbols are inspired by ancient cultures from all over the world, such as pre-Columbian birds, Iranian goats, Chinese snakes, and more free patterns.
A mask inspired by traditional Chinese opera .A delicate lotus flower crowns the head as symbol of spiritual opening and protection. Designed to be hung on the wall close to the entrance of the home in order to provide protection from the bad spirits.