Maria Lydaki was born and raised in Heraklion. She studied Pedagogy and worked for the Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A. She started taking icon painting lessons at the Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A. cultural department under Emmanouil Stylianakis and then under Manolis and Rania Kiagiadakis (2 years) and at the icon painting school of the Saint Titus…

Vassilis Zenetzis is a self-taught painter who was born in Alikarnassos, Heraklion, Crete in 1935. He started painting at a very young age and in 1973 he took part in the Pan-Hellenic Exhibition. In 1977 he presented his works made with a palette knife using a peculiar technique, in a solo exhibition which was held…