Heleni Polichronatou Country: Greece
		Title:  Sky - Sea Medium: Watercolor on paper processed by computer using Photoshop 4.0 Size: 10 x 10 cm

Polichronatou was born at Piraeus, Greece. She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Art under the supervision of Professors George Mavroidis and Dimitris Mitaras. She graduated in 1985. She was awarded two scholarships from the State Institution of Scholarships. The need to investigate volume, mass, and three-dimension led her once more to the School of Art to study sculpture under the supervision of George Lappas. She graduated again in 1994. She is a member of the Greek Chamber of Art, Greek Sculptors' Association, and School of Art Graduates' Association.

In her painting and sculpture, Polichronatou uses distinct forms taken from the world: man, trees, mountains, stars, birds, and moon along with other more abstract forms, e.g. cross and infinity signs. By attributing symbols to letters she creates an alphabet from our world. Polichronatou presented her interpretation of this personal artistic code between letters and symbols in four individual exhibitions: first, Painting the Words, National Gallery of Athens School of Art, Athens, 1996; second, Words in Three Dimensions, three-dimensional metallic ideographs, Greek Sculptors' Association, Athens, 1998; third, Words That Move, metallic sculptures set in motion from five different causes, School of Art Graduates' Association, Athens, 1999; and fourth, Words Through the P. C., electronic paintings processed by Photoshop 4, and printed from a PC on high quality analysis paper, A. P. DIAVASI, Athens,1999.

In 1998 Polichronatou represent the Greek School of Art at the International Meeting of Art, Westergas Fabrick, Amsterdam. The meeting included 40 universities and 750 artists from around the world. Proposals were presented on The Future Park, a new type of aesthetic park. In 1993 she illustrated a book, The Little Lonely Man, depicting the drug problem. Polichronatou's work has been exhibited in many cities around the world.