Sophie Charalambous
Sophie Charalambous is an award-winning artist, who lives and works in London. She works on paper between drawing, watercolour and mono-printing. She regularly visits Cyprus (she is half British/half Cypriot) and in her work the Island's flora, fauna, folk art, ancient history and festivals are re-imagined into personal landscapes which fuse the old world and the observed present.
Her experience in theatre-design is evident in her work through her treatment of space and light, employing shadow, scale and a heightened sense of reality with elements taken from both life and imagination.
Sophie Charalambous won the Jerwood Printmaking Today Prize 2020, the Sunday Times Watercolour Prize 2018 and the David Gluck Memorial Drawing Prize 2017. Her large watercolour The Church in the Mountains was included in Prince and Patron a 2018 exhibition at Buckingham Palace. Charalambous has exhibited internationally and In 2010 was comissioned by Van Cleef and Arpels to draw in their workshops in Paris.
She trained as an undergraduate at Brighton University (BA Hons Fine Art Painting), before postgraduate studies at the Motley Theatre Design Course and The Royal Drawing School, where she is now a member of the teaching faculty.
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Prickly Pear Landscape with Goats and Goatherd, 2023
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The Birds of Athens, 2023
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May Irises, 2023
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The Meadow , 2023
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Wild Summer Garden, 2023
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Winter Leaves The Garden, 2022
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Prickly Pear in Bloom, 2022
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Autumn Fig with Green Parakeets, 2022
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Pilgrims at the Clootie Well, 2022
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Oh my black heart, 2022
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Old Man Sleeping by a Shrine, 2022
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Prickly Pear Landscape with Mist Nets, 2022
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Pomegranate with Golden Ikons, 2022
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Fig Tree Frieze, 2022
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Thru September and Beyond the Stars, 2021
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Prickly Pear with Goats and Fruits, 2021
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Pomegranate Tree with Silver Tamata , 2021
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Prickly Pear with Votive Offerings, 2021
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Night Flowering Prickly Pear II pollinated by bats , 2021
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Little Children in Costumes under a Prickly Pear, 2021
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Echiums with Metal Fence , 2021
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Fig Tree in Summer , 2021
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Banana Grove, 2021
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Goats among the Prickly Pears, 2021
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Winter Fig Regent's Park, 2021
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Pear, Fig, Pomegranates, 2021
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Blue Garden in Spring , 2020
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Man Seated Under a Prickly Pear, 2020
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Afternoon of the Faun, 2020
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Winter in St Pancras Old Church Yard, 2020
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Comings and Goings , 2020
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Dahlia Garden, 2020
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Prickly Plants in the Garden, 2019
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December Windfalls in Memo’s Garden, 2019
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Through the Fence, 2019
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The Cypriots, 2019
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These Shadows They Walk Among Us, 2018
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Three Weird Sisters, 2018
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At the Goat Farm, 2018
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Leaving the Goat Farm, 2018
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Chlorakas Coastline, 2017