Eleftherios Klouvatos was born in Athens in 1978, where he still lives today. He has a degree in Business Administration.

In his youth, he realizes that painting is the activity that interests him exclusively. The special passion he showed in his adolescence for the art of painting, was constantly strengthening. He travels around the world, visiting major museums as well as important historical and art exhibitions. He studies the work of the classical painters of the Renaissance, their techniques, experiments in various styles and teaches the artistic currents in the course of art history. Applies these lessons with consistency and respect to works of historical content.

Inspired mainly by Greek mythology and history, he creates magnificent compositions, oversized and numerous, devoting many years to the completion of each creation.

Crafts a variety of themes, impressive composition and ingenuity. Original thematically for the modern era and classic technically, it surprises the viewer with the dexterity and perfection of the performance of his works, which maximize his talent, since he is self-taught!

The series «Naval battles» are works of shocking recording, with historical naval battles and naval conflicts. With a completely realistic interpretation and amazing obsession with detail, they have been a presumption included in articles by historians, analysts and journalists in renowned publications, websites, television shows as well as references to World Maritime History.

It seeks the truth of the event with expressive power, in a complex stage space and forms of a perfectly well-written design. It impresses with its riotous skies, daringly enriched color combinations, deafening contrasts and light sources of intense dynamism. He prefers the perspective of depth, elaborately highlighting the composition of the type “painting within the painting”.

Monumental creations that project aesthetic fields of intense emotional charge and enhance feelings of awe.

Historical events that are a preservation of cultural past and memory highlight the Homeric phrase over time (Iliad II13)

“Ώλετο μεν μοι νόστος, ατάρ κλέος άφθιτον έστα”

“There is no return for me, but the glory will be eternal.”

Annita Patsouraki

Art Historian