Colored pencil portrait on paper. Portrait of a student of mine, Chrysa, trying to hide her smile. I love drawing kids, I was smiling for hours, while I was drawing her. Chrysa means golden. That's one of the reasons I have included the yellow floating objects. Andromachi Giannopoulou was born in Australia and grew up in Athens, Greece. She studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts and continued her postgraduate studies in Art and Design at Chelsea College of Arts in London with a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and Biennales in Greece and abroad, and has been awarded the Education Leaders Award for excellence in the field. Currently, she lives and works in Athens, where she also teaches art. ​ Her artistic practice revolves around the fluid boundaries between reality, memory, and dream. She’s particularly drawn to the spaces between sleep and wakefulness, the repetition of certain dreams, and how dream spaces behave. These subconscious images often seem to circle around questions of female sexuality and its repression — though she doesn't start with a fixed theme. Instead, she lets images and sensations lead the way, embracing the inevitable distortions of perception.