Thirty years ago Niki Eleftheriadi first presented an authentic, unique world both earthly and oneiric. Expressive figures mostly female, at times within traditional houses or out in the open, highlighted with the blue of the sea and the green of the gardens.

In the last unit of her work entitled ''Wanderings'' ,which will be presented from Thursday 11th of March in Astrolavos artlife (Irodotou 11, Kolonaki, tel: 210 7221200, 4, fax: 210 7221304, opening hours: Mon.Wed.Sat 11.00-15.00 and Tu.Th.Fr 11.00-20.30, www.astrolavos.gr, gallery@astrolavos.gr) the artist will exhibit 30 oil paintings, creations of the past 2 years. Works are structured with a distinct primitive writing and vivid colors- counterbalancing the loneliness coming from her figures provoking the viewer to enter her world.
Sceneries with pine trees, porches with sea views over the Aegean Sea but also city views, are some of the artists themes. The island of Lesvos everywhere through the filter of the painters refined emotional attachment, bring up memories and awaken nostalgia for something that left and the never-ending wait for something yet to come.

Niki Eleftheriadis paintings possess the innocence of an authentic intuition and the wisdom of a totally assimilated experience. Every drawing is unique but also in harmony with the others, in a lyrical unity. A world protected, maybe a bit detached, with miniature motives in different layers crossing the painting surface thus creating different pictorial fields and narrations.  
This work signifies the need for personal boundaries between desire and restriction; Fantasy and reality, of the  possible and impossible.

Duration of exhibition until:  Saturday 27th of March 2010.    

Niki Eleftheriadi was born in 1954 in Petra, Lesvos.
From 1972-1974 studied Graphic Arts and  Interior Design in Athens and from 1975-1977 plastic arts in the University Paris VIII.
Works of hers are in the National Portrait Gallery, Max Fourny Museum - Paris, in the Portrait Gallery of Mytileni Municipality, Agrotiki Bank, Alpha Bank, in the Tellogleion Institution of Thessaloniki and numerous private collections.