At the age of nineteen he went to Munich with the aim of studying law but soon departed for Paris where he studied at the School of Fine Arts and the Julian Academy. In the French capital he met important artists such as Juan Gris and Kees van Dongen. He returned to Greece and in 1921-1922, took part in the Asia Minor campaign, depicting war scenes, which were lost during the retreat, and which had previously been exhibited at the Zappeion Hall and in Smyrna.

He was one of the founding members of the “Art Group” and participated in its exhibitions (1919, 1920, 1930) and, in 1938, the “League of Greek Painters” of which he was elected President. In 1928 he participated in the organization of the art club “Atelier”, the subsequent “House of Letters and Arts”, while in 1934 with the painter Aleka Stylou he founded the first private school of painting in Athens which operated up to the German occupation. In 1939 he was appointed director of the branches of the School of Fine Arts in Hydra and Delphi.

In addition to painting he was also involved with caricature and set design, working as a set designer for the National Theater from 1930 on. His exhibition activity also included participation in Panhellenies between 1938-1965, the Venice Biennale of 1934 and the International Exhibition of Paris in 1937, as well as solo shows (Stratigopoulos gallery 1927, 1930, 1939, Studio 1934, 1937, Zygos 1958, 1964, National Gallery 1972). Posthumous retrospectives of his work have been presented at the National Gallery (1984) and the Melas Mansion (1994).

His early works show the influences of the French artistic tradition, mainly scenes of life in an urban environment, but portraits as well, while later he did depictions of landscape which show color sensitivity, the emphasis placed on the changeable and momentary.

He studied sculpture and stage design at the Athens School of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1967. In 1969 he participated at the Alexandria Biennale and in the same year he was awarded the First Parthenis Prize for his painting. He has also worked on composition, singing and literature, while he has been awarded a prize for book design (Leipzig 1979, 1983). Since 1969 he has been presenting his work in solo exhibitions in Athens and Thessaloniki. In 1990 has been organized a retrospective exhibition with his work at the French Institute

In his works he cultivates an expressionist painting with frugal, dark colors, that are characterized by a mood that is sometimes sarcastic and sometimes pessimistic.

A child of Greeks from Smyrna. After losing his mother, he left London in 1930 and settled in Athens with his father, who died two years later. In 1935 he studied for a brief period at the Athens School of Fine Arts and in 1938 returned to England. From 1941 to 1946 he served in the RAF.

Since then he has been devoted to painting, studying at museums such as the National and Tate Gallery in London and in 1949 held his first solo exhibition at the Twenty Brook Street gallery. From 1951 to 1952 he resided in Paris, working in the city’s great museums and during the same period destroyed a large part of his previous work. Returning to London he continued his artistic and exhibition activity, remaining faithful to figurative painting. In 1955 he visited Spain and a year later settled in Paris where in 1960 he had a solo show at the Rive Gauche gallery, which he worked with until 1976. In 1962 he took part in the exhibition “New Figurative Painting” at the Mathias Fels gallery and in 1965 won the AICA prize in London. In 1990 he acquired French citizenship. He has presented his work in many group, solo and retrospective exhibitions (Randers, Denmark 1974, Saint-Etienne 1979, Montb²liard, Dunkerque, Saint-Qeuntin 1986).

One of the forerunners of “New Figurative Painting”, at the beginning of the Sixties, he created figurative, expressionistic painting, using vibrant color and strong, black outlines, in which the human figure and the drama of human existence dominate.

He studied political and economic science followed by painting and engraving at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1938-1945) and Paris (1946-1950). In 1954 he settled in the French capital after a series of trips to various European countries (1951-1953). He presented his work in solo, group and international exhibitions (Panhellenies 1952, 1963, 1965, Sao Paolo Biennale 1963, 1965). A sculptor as well as a painter, he was also involved with book illustration, set design and decoration.

He belonged to the artists of the so-called Sixties generation. His work, experimental and radical, contains strong elements of protest and provocation.

He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1948 to 1954, at the Yannis Moralis studio. In 1957, on a scholarship from the State Scholarship Service, he went to Rome where he lived until 1960. From 1960 to 1970 he worked in Paris. At the invitation of D.A.A.D. he went to Berlin where he stayed from 1971 to 1972. From then until 1983 he divided his time between Athens and Paris, in 1984 settling permanently in Athens. From the beginning of the Sixties, when he started to exhibit, until today, his work has appeared in more than eighty solo exhibitions and he has participated in many group ones as well, in Greece and abroad, mainly in European cities. In 1986 he represented Greece at the Venice Biennale.

An artist fond of experimenting, Tsoclis has produced creations illustrating different directions and trends, combining painting with elements taken from outside painting, reality with the deceiving of the eye, art with technology, and he has also introduced video into his work.

Evangelos Faeinos studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Oumvertos Argyros and Epameinondas Thomopoulos and in the late 1940s and early 1950s trained under Giorgos Vakirtzis in producing large-scale film advertising billboards. He also worked in advertising. Since 1952 and for seven years, he lived and worked in Canada, where he became involved with animation. He returned to Athens in 1960. In interviews, he has described a personal path beginning with the study of Impressionism before arriving at a painting which, in his opinion, responds to “today’s machine-dominated world” by combining organic motifs and elements of human presence with the energy of the machine in a metaphysical atmosphere, using the technical skills he had acquired by working in the applied arts. He has had solo and group exhibitions in Greece and other countries.

He studied painting in Athens under Kostas Iliadis and Theodoros Drosos and at the Julian Academy in Paris, in the workshops of Claude Schurr and Mac Avoy.
In 1959 he presented his first solo exhibition at the Zygos gallery which was followed by solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, among which were the Venice Biennale of 1970 and the Brussels Europalia in 1982.

Interested in landscape, still life, interiors and the human figure, he adhered to the tenets of impressionism in his early work. Then, adopting the main aspects of pop art and utilizing the techniques employed by comic books, he turned to satirizing social and political reality, creating compositions with a surrealistic atmosphere and symbolic allusions. His artistic creation also includes a number of engravings in the framework of which he published his “Λεύκωμα 1940-1974” (“Album 1940-1974”) with one hundred monotypes inspired by the Greek-Italian war, the German occupation, the Greek Resistance, the Greek Civil War and the Greek Dictatorship.

A pupil of Leonardo Cremonini at the Paris School of Fine arts (1984 – 1988), she continued her studies in engraving thanks to a scholarship of the French government (1988 – 1989). She has presented her work in solo exhibitions in Athens (“Ora” 1990, “Zoumboulakis” 1993, 1996) and in Paris (“Eonnet – Dupruy” 1991) and since 1985 she has been participating in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Her works -interiors and paintings inspired from nature and urban landscape- belong to figurative painting.

He studied set design and engraving at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1959-1964) under Kostas Grammatopoulos. In 1966, on a scholarship from the State Scholarship Service, he studied the decoration of traditional houses in western Macedonia and in 1970, on another scholarship from the same organization, he continued his studies until 1973 at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. In 1975 and 1976, on a scholarship from the Ford Foundation, he taught lithographic techniques at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico.

Having started to exhibit in 1964, he presented his first solo show in 1974 at the Zoumboulakis gallery. This was followed by solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad and appearances in group and international exhibitions of painting and engraving, such as XYLON in Geneva in 1969, the Biennales of Alexandria in 1968 and Ljubljana in 1969 and 1973, the International Woodcut Exhibition in Milan in 1973, as well as the Engraving Biennales of Norway in 1974 and Cracow in 1974 and 1976.

Originally involved only with engraving, he later turned to painting as well, producing compositions in both techniques, characterized by their realistic precision, surrealistic atmosphere, the use of optical illusion and the stage, set-like rendering. In his works, the human figure is usually missing, and themes taken from the Renaissance or the Baroque are frequently exploited, though later on he also began to draw his inspiration from Greek mythology or Roman antiquity. His artistic creation includes a large wall painting done in 1982 for the Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel.