Etching | 2025 | 20x30cm

Signs and Memory
Vasiliki Siatara 

Description: I created this artwork with the technique of etching, and most specifically, with the techique of smooth varnish and the print is a result of both intaglio and relief printing. A face of a mature man is shown coming out from expresionistic lines, turning down his head, and eventually being mixed with the dark orange/brown/reddish background.

​The man is holding his eyes closed, it is a portrait that can give multiple interpretations and intend to “speak” about remembering, loss, and justice.

About the artist: My name is Vasiliki Siatara. I live and work in Ioannina, Greece. I am in the forth year of my studies at the School of Fine Arts of the University of IoanninaI have participated in several group exhibitions, inside and outside the university.

Recently I won the Wsa Painting Prize (Winchester Painting Prize 2024, being on the 10 finalists exhibited on Winchester Gallery) My main subject is the person, the child and small daily moments that involve the present with the past and are usually transformed on a white sheet into symbols and images with multiple interpretations.

​I set up a picture, usually with faces and figures from my close family environment (past & present) where they tell the story that each individual will read when they look at them. Every kind of emotion that a person can feel defines my subject matter. Painting with acrylics and markers on sheet, and printmaking methods such as woodcut and intaglio are the main body of my work today.