The Calm Before The Storm
Oil on Canvas
39x28in
20 Artworks
Oil on Canvas
31x39in
Greece
Michel Devanakis is a painter of questions, of what lies beyond what we see, remember, or believe.
His works move between the real and the symbolic, tracing that fragile line where emotion becomes image and silence turns into color.
After a career in graphic design, he turned entirely to painting, guided by a need for slowness and depth, for the kind of creation that takes time to breathe. Working mainly in oil and acrylic, he blends classical technique with contemporary vision, sometimes weaving in digital textures or collage to bridge tradition and modern myth.
Themes of memory, freedom, faith, and beauty run through his work, not as fixed ideas but as living questions. Each painting becomes a mirror of the human condition, of the unseen forces that guide us, and of the stories we inherit and reinvent.
Collectors are often drawn to his art for its balance of strength and stillness. Works that invite contemplation not as an escape but as a return to presence.
Arts Club Chianciano Award- First Prize- Chianciano, Italy
Artist of the year competition - Honorable mention award - Nominated- Lyon, France
Luxembourg Art Price - mérite artistique - Nominated- Luxembourg, Luxembourg
PORTRAIT International Juried Art Competition - First Prize- New-York, United States
London Art Biennale 2021 - Nominated- United Kingdom
Human Exception / Alma Mater - Athens, Greece
IKIGAI / Alma Mater - Athens, Greece
Kinesthesia / EPsilon Art Gallery, - Loutraki, Greece
Summertime / Technohoros gallery - Athens, Greece
Summertime / Chili Art Gallery in collaboration with Artgrid, Dimofontos 13/15, Thiseio, , April 4 -1 - Athens, Greece
ARC – Art Revisited Collective: New Symbols 3 / Luminous Eye Gallery - Athens, Greece
Behind the Masks of Utopian Joy / Chili Art Gallery - Athens, Greece
Chianciano Biennale 2024 / Museo d'Arte di Chianciano Terme - Chianciano, Italy
Summertime / Luminous Eye Gallery - Athens, Greece
State & Utopia / Luminous Eye Gallery - Athens, Greece
Athens Open Art / Art Number 23 - Athens, Greece
Chianciano Biennale 2022 / Museo d'Arte di Chianciano Terme - Chianciano, Italy
London Art Biennale 2021 / Chelsea Old Town Hall - London, United Kingdom
Light and Color in History / Archaeological Museum of Marathon - Marathon, Greece
Bermuda Artists Week / Bermuda Society of Art - Hamilton, Bermuda
Bermuda Artists Week / Bermuda Society of Art - Hamilton, Bermuda
Circle Foundation for the Arts- Quarterly Art Review
Bruxelles Art Vue- Human Body is Art
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