Sophie Charalambous

Sophie Charalambous is an award-winning artist of British-Cypriot heritage, living in London.  She works on paper between watercolour, drawing and mono-printing. She regularly revisits Cyprus and in her work the island's flora, fauna, folk art, ancient history and religious festivals are re-envisioned in personal landscapes which fuse the imagined past and the observed present, the natural and cultural. 

Although her work is always based on close observation and a deep connection with nature, other elements are also in play. Charalambous’s background in theatre-design seems evident in her treatment of space and light. She deploys shadow and scale to bring an often heightened sense of reality to a scene. It is suggested, too, by her occasional touches of fantastical imagination: a centaur glimpsed in the distance, an ancient philosopher discovered amongst his goats.

Charalambous trained as an undergraduate at Brighton University (BA Hons Fine Art Painting), before postgraduate studies at the Motley Theatre Design Course and The Royal Drawing School, where she is now a member of the teaching faculty.