CC MEET THE ARTIST
A kaleidoscope of colour Artist Jo Dounis has an innate sense of adventure, evident in stories of her life and in her artistic accomplishments, which include pursuing a career in art and interior design. She chats with Martina Said about her love of colour, travel and doing things differently.
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he journey of artist Jo Dounis is one of perseverance, and never losing sight of something that brings joy and satisfaction. An abstract artist with a deep love for colour, her road to becoming a working artist wasn’t a straight one, but after dedicating most of her free time to painting later on in life, there was no turning back.
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Born in Malta, Jo is the daughter of an architect and admits that, as a child, she loved watching her father work, back when computers didn’t exist and he did everything by hand. “I especially loved it when he did a watercolour and pen painting of a building he was working on, which he would then present to whoever had commissioned him. I started
drawing and colouring as soon as I could hold a pencil.” Jo explains that her father was a great influence on her love for art and architecture. While she studied art at school, she left Malta at the age of 18 to work in Greece and Italy, and a few years later, she met and married her Greek husband, making Greece her home
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