Nicholas Papatzaneteas was born Athens, Greece and spent several formative childhood years in Australia.

He studied at Hornsey College of Art (Middlesex University) and the Royal College of Art London.

He worked on the production team for Time Out magazine and illustration contributor for the politics section. His work has also been published in The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Illustrations commissioned by Time Out are included in the drawing collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum London.

He is a lecturer at Liverpool College of Art on the BA(Hons) course, and a Senior Lecturer on the Foundation course at Newham College of Further Education, also establishing and running a two year Foundation course for mature students. His work has been exhibited in London and France, and his work is in private and public collections in the UK, Europe and USA.

He is a Member of Plymouth Society of Artists, exhibiting with them since 1998 at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.

He has exhibited with South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in Plymouth and Exeter.

He was the winner of South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Painting Award 2009.

He had a two person show the Art Room Budleigh Salterton, and a solo exhibition the Art Room Topsham 2010.

Nikos has explored a number of ideas in his work; the most recent involves the seascape and atmosphere of the Breton and South West coastline. This work has progressed from the more representational approach to an abstracted development which is concerned less with the actual topography (of the place) and a more subjective emphasis on mood and the evocation of atmosphere.

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