Alexis Averbuck
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Painter and writer
Having relocated to Hydra in 2007, Alexis recent painting works to capture the specific luster of the island's colors, moods, and natural environment. Learn more.
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Alison Leslie Gold
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Writer
Award-winning author Alison Leslie Gold has published fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, as well as written for radio and television. She presently divides her time
between New York City and Kamini, Hydra. Learn more. |
Ann Rivers
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Poet
Poet Ann Rivers has lived on Hydra for nearly four decades. Learn more and more. |
Bill Pownall
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Painter
English painter Bill Pownall has been living and working on Hydra for decades, transforming its scenery into a symbolic language in his abstract paintings and creating evocative landscape collages. Learn more and more. |
Brice Marden
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Painter
American painter Brice Marden and his wife, Helen Harrington, first visited Hydra in 1971. Since, they have returned annually, and the island is said to have greatly affected Marden's work. Learn more and more. |
Charles Young
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Writer
American novelist Charles Young lives part-time on Hydra. His novel Clouds over Hydra (1996) is set on the island. Learn more. |
David Fagan
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Writer
David Fagan spent his formative years in Africa. After lunch on a Greek island day trip in 1983, he opted not to reboard the cruise boat but stayed, living and working on Hydra, pursuing his alternative lifestyle, publishing his first collection of stories about the island in 2003. Learn more. |
David Irlam
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Sculptor and Writer
David has been living on the Greek island of Hydra for over twenty years, during which time he has developed a keen interest in making items of art from the native Olive wood. Learn more. |
Demetri Gassoumis
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Painter
Born of an Hydriot mother, Demetris Gassoumis splits his time between the island and the States. Hydra landscapes make up the vast majority of his painting, and he also makes stunning shadow sculptures out of white paper. Learn more. |
Don Lowe
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Writer
Don Lowe has spent the last four decades on the island and has penned multiple works of fiction. He often entertains the locals with readings from his writings. Learn more. |
Francesca
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Poet
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Jacqueline Savidge
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Painter
Jacqui came to live in Greece nearly 25 years ago. After living in Athens for two years she moved to Hydra, which has been her home and source of inspiration ever since. Learn more. |
Imelda Keyen
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Painter
Born in Belgium and living now mostly in Scotland and Greece, Imelda Keyen first came to Hydra in 1985 and lived here mostly until 1993. Her teachers were Jens Karkov and Anthony Kingsmill, who were both pupils in Paris under Serge Poliakof. Learn more. |
Iris Kharami
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Painter
Descended from an old Hydriot family, the self-taught Iris Kharami has been painting for thirty years. She has had seven one-woman shows in Athens and two on Hydra, and her work captures island's "grandeur and austerity." Learn more. |
Karolos Voutsinas
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Composer and pianist
Greek-English musician Karolos Voutsinas has enjoyed a successful career in Greece and internationally as a composer, arranger, pianist, and vocal performer, among a myriad other roles. He made Hydra his home in 2008. Learn more. |
Leonard Cohen
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Writer and musician
Canadian poet, novelist, songwriter, and singer Leonard Cohen spent many years on Hydra, which features prevalently in or has otherwise influenced much of his writing. Learn more. |
Mary Gladstone
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Painter
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Mary Louise Coulouris
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Painter and printmaker
Mary Louise is a printmaker, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Printmakers, painter, and public artist. Imagination, creativity, and design sense are central to her work. She spends most of the year on Hydra. Learn more. |
Michael Lawrence
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Painter
Michael Lawrence has lived and worked on Hydra since 1992, painting landscapes and portraits, as well as whimsical interpretations of idea and experience, some inspired by the island itself. He exhibits annually at the Maria Mercuri Gallery on Hydra's port. Learn more.
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Michalis Maniatis
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Writer and actor
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Natacha Best
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Painter
French watercolorist Natacha Best divides her time between Paris and Hydra, taking the landscape as the inspiration for most of her paintings. She has exhibited for more than twenty years throughout France, Spain, and Greece.
Since 2006, she has served as vice president of Kamini's Verena Foundation. Learn more.
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Panayiotis Tetsis
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Painter
One of Greece's most eminent painters, Hydra-born Panayiotis Tetsis takes the island as inspiration for many of his land- and seascapes and still lifes. Learn more and more and more. |
Pauline Keaney
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Painter
Pauline Keaney lives permanently on Hydra, whose landscape and scenery are sources of inspiration for her abstract paintings. Learn more. |
Roger Green
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Poet
English writer and poet Roger Green lives and works full-time in Kamini, regaling the locals with his parodic verse. Learn more and more. |
