Born in Greece in the year of the Horse of Fire, Alexandra carries within her the luminosity and restlessness of her birth element — a spirit that roams freely between poetry, philosophy, and art. Her life and work form an exquisite continuum between nature and consciousness, intellect and imagination, movement and stillness.
Having spent her formative years amidst the wild mountains of Hydra, she grew up surrounded by artists, writers, and thinkers — her father, a renowned poet and publisher, and her mother, a ballet dancer and President of the Dance Union of Greece. Such an upbringing steeped her in the language of beauty and thought, shaping her into an artist who does not merely observe the world but translates it into ethereal harmonies of image and word.
Educated at St. Mary’s in Wiltshire and later at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, where she studied European Thought and Literature, Alexandra refined her ability to think through art — to find philosophy in rhythm and movement in language. Her years in Paris and New York expanded this vision, exposing her to global currents of artistic discourse before she finally returned to Greece to settle near the Temple of Poseidon, Sounio, by the sea. There, amidst the whispering winds and luminous horizons, she continues to live and create — alongside her husband, a classical guitar soloist, and their four children.
Biography
Alexandra’s artistic journey is deeply rooted in her dual nature — both contemplative and kinetic. Her mother’s world of ballet and her father’s realm of literature merge seamlessly in her own art, where movement becomes metaphor and poetry becomes vision.
Her ongoing creative project, The Flying Series, is a profound manifestation of this synthesis. Each book is a symphonic composition: a long poem accompanied by graphic illustrations, forming a unique genre of visual poetry. The visual and the verbal do not compete but coexist — two wings of the same flight.
Her books are more than collections of verses; they are journeys of the spirit — explorations of transcendence, freedom, and inner elevation. In her own words, her art expresses “The Flying” — a state of being that defies gravity, dissolving boundaries between earth and sky, self and universe.
Her latest publication, Flying 13, released in Greek by Writers International Edition Publishing House, marks a new chapter in her artistic evolution, reaffirming her place among contemporary poets and artists who redefine the relationship between word and image.
Flying 21: The silent architecture of the soul
For the Panorama International Arts Festival 2025, Alexandra presents her recent work, Flying 21, a continuation of her visual poetic series. The work is a delicate orchestration of verse and form, where each page unfolds like the beat of invisible wings.
In Flying 21, words float across the visual field, merging with abstract forms, textures, and light — a choreography of language and vision. The book reads as an act of ascension: it is less about narrative than experience, less about destination than journey.
Her poetic lines rise and fall like breath — airy yet grounded in emotional gravity. The accompanying graphics, often ethereal and translucent, extend the meaning of the poem beyond verbal comprehension into the realm of intuition. One does not merely read Flying 21; one feels its rhythm.
The theme of flight — recurrent throughout her oeuvre — here transforms into a meditation on inner liberation. The poems evoke the tension between stillness and movement, solitude and belonging, evanescence and eternity. They carry echoes of nature’s own cyclic wisdom — of winds that wander, of birds that disappear into light, of souls that seek the horizon.
Through the fusion of poetry and design, Flying 21 becomes a spiritual architecture — a visual poem of the self. Each image complements a verse, each pause a silence that speaks. In these moments, Alexandra’s art achieves what few can: it transforms the act of reading into an act of transcendence.
Conclusion
Alexandra stands as a luminous voice in contemporary art and literature — a creator who embodies the convergence of word, image, and inner truth. Her works are not bound by genre or geography; they are the manifestation of flight itself — movement as existence, poetry as liberation.
Living by the sea near the Temple of Poseidon, she continues to draw from the eternal elements — air, water, light — to create works that celebrate the freedom of the human spirit. Her visual poetry reminds us that art, at its highest form, is not a possession but a passage — a way to see beyond the horizon of thought and into the quiet infinity of being.
In honoring Alexandra at the Panorama International Arts Festival 2025, we celebrate an artist whose life and work reveal that “flying” is not only a metaphor for transcendence but the essence of creation itself — to rise, to imagine, and to live within the vast sky of the soul.