My name is Ersi Marina Samará. I was born and grew up in Athens, Greece, and I have been living in Spain for the second half of my life. I studied drawing and painting in the Athens School of Fine Arts, and photography in Barcelona.
I am also very much interested in human cultures and literature, so I studied Cultural Anthropology in the Universidad Central de Barcelona and followed creative writing courses for a few years in the nineties.
Through time I have learned as much from my own experimentations and from the work of artists I admire as from my studies and books. I have now come to a point where I like to use all my tools in my creative process, as much as I enjoy exploring different styles and making them my own.
In my work reality informs abstraction in artworks that tend to be suggestive and playfully decorative.