Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment: ΦΕΚ 180/Γ/22.02.2018

Born in Athens in 1965.

She graduated from the HILL school in 1983. 

From 1984 to 1988, she studied Peinture Monumentale (Monumental Painting) at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.

From 1989 to 2005, she worked extensively in the field of Byzantine icon painting, focusing on portable icons under the mentorship of Professor Konstantinos Xinopoulos.

She has collaborated with the Holy Community of the God-trodden Mount Sinai and the Orthodox Church of Korea, creating wall paintings in churches as well as portable icons for iconostases and devotional panels.

In 2005, she was appointed as a visual arts teacher in secondary education through the national ASEP examination process. In 2018, she transferred to a permanent position as member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff in the Department of Visual Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), in the Fresco and Portable Icon Techniques Studio. Her academic specialisation is Art and Technique of Monumental Painting.

In 2018, she was awarded First Prize in the International Iconography Art Competition organised by the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) for her work “Anatoli Anatolon” (“East of the East”), under the theme “The Resurrection of Jesus”.

Since 1986, she has participated in ten group exhibitions.

Email: okelaidi@asfa.gr