Bare Hands
“Bare Hands” is a painting born entirely from the natural mineral pigments of Serifos’ earth.
These very stones once shaped the harsh daily lives and demanding labor of the island’s
miners. Gathered from the landscape, these rock samples, mostly iron oxides and clay,
were processed through ancestral paint-making traditions. Finely ground by hand with a
mortar and infused with linseed oil, they were transformed into oil paints. An ochre and a
deep red.
- Handmade oil paints from Serifian rocks on canvas
- 70x100cm
- June 2026
Thodoris Mavridis
Thodoris Mavridis
Thodoris Mavridis (1982) is a contemporary visual artist based in Athens. His practice
emerges through views on human nature and its interactions with space. He is a graduate
of the Florina School of Fine Arts, Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of
Western Macedonia (2018). He presented his first solo exhibition titled “utopos” at the Byzantine Museum of Veria (2018). He has participated in group exhibitions such as WEDO,
Platforms Project (2024), “Urban Landscape: The space where modern man moves and
operates – an ongoing challenge between man and nature”, Aristotle Museum of Natural
History (2020), Cavafy after project, Byzantine Museum of Veria (2018), Face or Façade,
Byzantine Museum of Veria (2017), 8th Biennale of Students of Fine Arts Schools of
Greece (2017), Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje (2016), and the “Painting Competition:
Loukas Venetoulias”, Teloglion Foundation of Art A.U.Th. (2014).
E-mail: teomavridis@hotmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mavridis.thodoris/