Painter Dimitrios Kokotsis was born in 1894 in Agios Georgios of Kissamos province, prefecture of Chania. He initially studied under painter Ioannis Stavrakis from Heraklion and at the same time he worked as a librarian at the Philological Association “Chrysostomos” (1912 – 1913) in Chania. He fought at the Balkan Wars and then, on a…

Lefkochir Costa was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1952. He studied painting and graphic arts in Belgium, at the Liège Academy of Fine Arts (1971 – 1976). He has settled permanently in Belgium and, since 1980, he has held several solo exhibitions in Greece (Athens and Heraklion) and mainly abroad (Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Brussels).…

Painter and engraver Aikaterini (Titika) Salla – Dokoumetzidi was born in 1947 in Heraklion, Crete. She first studied German literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (she graduated in 1972), and then painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1980 – 1985) under D. Mytaras, D. Kokkinidis, I. Dekoulakos, and engraving under Th. Exarchopoulos…

A fifth grade student (1988 – 1989 school year) who took part in a European School Day contest and received an award by the Council of Europe for this work which is exhibited at the Municipal Gallery.