Harikleia Kuliopulos
46 Waltham Street
www.harikleiastudios.com
For artist Harikleia (Harriet) Kuliopulos, it all starts with color and light—evocative, beautiful, intriguing. "Painting, for me, is a visual meditation in form, color, and space. From the first strong impulse to the last consideration, it's a response to the beauty of light moving over a form, illuminating the land or absent in shadow. This joyful, impressionistic rendering of what I see visually, as the color of light, connects to what I see inwardly—to memory, stories of people and place, to things deeply felt and understood." Harikleia paints places that she feels connected to, seeking to evoke the sense of each unique landscape or cityscape, the day, time of year, and what is "moving in the air." Several summers ago, she followed her muse to Greece to paint landscapes for three months on Lesvos, the island of her mother's family.
Harikleia grew up in Massachusetts and lives in Boston. She studied art at MassArt and the Museum School and was mentored by Cedric and Joanette Egeli at the Cape School of Art. She's shown her work in galleries in Boston, on the Cape and in juried group shows, and her paintings hang in collections in the U.S. and Europe.