My name is Siovas Ioannis. I was born and raised in Nea Ionia, Volos.

My artistic inclination in painting was evident from my early years as a child, then as a teenager and continues to this day, having wandered, engaged and created within various painting trends and currents.

My studies have been about a broader field of learning about drawing and painting.

My engagement with the art of Iconography began by being a spectator and listener for three years, in the adult iconography art workshop learning classes, at my neighborhood parish, without being able to participate in them, being a child. Everything I saw, heard and learned over those three years was transformed into creation upon returning home. Great teachers taught in these workshops, with an appetite for enlightenment.

Later, during my high school years, my excellent and great teacher, Mrs. Elena Nikiforou, was the one who introduced me to measurement, composition, pencil and charcoal, giving my artistic substance even more resources, breadth of vision and thought. I began to realize how great a work could be, as I looked at it, through the quality of its lines and how each artist rendered volumes and shadows with the colours on it.

I met and interacted with many great artists, Greek and foreign, in the field of drawing and painting, each of whom contributed a little bit to what I wanted and sought to follow each time in my art.

I have visited many art galleries, famous and not, large and small where every time is an opportunity for study and exchange of energy.

I have participated in various exhibitions and my works can be found in various places in Greece and abroad.

The concept of lifelong learning has followed me throughout the years and I have tried in turn to teach my students what I have learned, honoring my own teachers and how generously they gave me their knowledge and insight, and I thank them for that, from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you very much.
Yours sincerely,

Siovas Ioannis
The iconographer

This communication forum of artION is primarily dedicated to my wife Effie, for all those reasons, in the years we spent together, that make us feel optimistic, smile, dream…

And to all those who, intentionally or unintentionally, gave me the possibility of learning and the power of knowledge over the years and who will never cease to “inhabit” that special place in my memory and in my heart.