Giorgos Toulkeridis's Profile

From: Greece
Joined: November 20, 2008

About GiorgosT:

Since his early adolescence years he realized his tendency towards Art and in particular towards painting; he has been creating pieces of work ever since then and experimenting with various materials and techniques.

From June until August 1996 he sojourned as an apprentice religious painter in the cell of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary {Katsoulierides} in Mount Athos, under the guidance of Father Efraim.

From August until October 2005 he attended private school lessons at the School Intergrafics, having as object the learning and operation of the programs Corel, Photoshop and Autocad.

During the period 2006 – 2007 he systematically attended lessons of design and colour with the graduate of the Thessaloniki School of Fine Arts, Painter Mr. Nicolaos Aslanidis.

During the period 2007 – 2008 he systematically attended lessons of design and colour at the Workshop of the graduates of the Athens School of Fine Arts “Rania & Rena” (Athenian girls).

In January and February of 2009 he attended design lessons with the Painter – Architect Mr. Constantinos Balian.

From 2009 he is a member of the artists’ group contACT (Contemporary Art Club) of Thessaloniki.

In 2011 he attended engraving lessons at the Conjectural and Applied Arts’ Laboratory “Helios” of the Municipality of Neapolis – Sykies / Thessaloniki, having as a teacher the painter and engraver Mr. Dimitris Karlaftopoulos.