Anna Karakalos - He Was I am We Will Be Here

The Stained Glass Artist

21x31(cm)

Oil on Yupo with Ink Monoprint Overlay. Lightbox

This is my dad. He is a storyteller, a dreamer and a stained glass artist. Nothing I can say about him can capture what a huge personality this man was. His strength of character was unwavering. His laughter contagious, I can hear it still. The hole he left when he died in 2015 is still gaping, but I feel so honored to have called him my dad, so grateful that he brought me to Greece and gave my family the gift of Poros

Not For Sale. Accepting commissions to recreate your loved ones in "stained glass"

The Stained Glass Artist Test Piece

12,5x17,5(cm)

Ink on Yupo. Lightbox

I must have made half a dozen or so test pieces in an effort to recreate the stained glass look, but I really liked this first small piece the best of all. It really feels like my dad, something that I feel that I lost a little bit with each subsequent test. Danielle Sale helped me install lights behind the yupo paper. He made all of the custom frames for each piece, and as he finished all of the reclaimed wood he realized that the only piece that was left to do was the final oil painting of my dad, and that it would have to be done with a much nicer wood that he had at his mill. Coincidentally it was his own father's birthday that day and he was just as moved as I was

Not For Sale. Accepting commissions to recreate your loved ones in "stained glass"

Poros Souls

30x60(cm)
Ink on Cardstock

Every year when I return to Poros, I always catch up on the cat gossip as though all these cats that have entered our lives here are just as important and valid as anyone else in our circle of friends and family. The seagulls, overall, symbolize the spirits of those who have left us but who are still here, always.
SOLD

The Shape Of Poros

76x29(cm)

Acrylic with Ink Monoprint on Arches Paper

Drawings from my sketchbooks, vaguely assembled to form the shape of Poros

€800

Beach Buds

12x17,5(cm)

Acrylic and Pencil

My mom and her friends have a standing date at noon to swim on Panayitsa beach year after year

€180

Panagitsa Sketches

66,5x51(cm)

Acrylic and Oil Stick with Monoprint Overlay

Panagitsa Beach, bits and pieces from summer sketchbooks

€600

To The Barrel

23x30,5(cm)

Acrylic on Canvas Paper

Swimming from Panayitsa beach to the Barrel-shaped rock

€380

Fousa Night

26,5x12(cm)

Acrylic On Arches Paper

Nights spent up at the Temple of Poseidon talking about ancient Greece and philosophy, watching the shapes of the trees become obscured and ghostly in the moonlight

€320

Olga

46x30,5(cm)

Acrylic with Ink Monoprint

This is Olga dancing on a table at her taverna, where we spent most summer evenings, which invariably ended in someone or everyone dancing. Olga was one of my dad's best friends.

SOLD

Theofania

12,5x17,5(cm)

Ink on Transparent Yupo. Lightbox

Watching the boys jumping into the sea to retrieve the cross

SOLD

Askeli Seagulls

30x22,5(cm)

Acrylic with Ink Monoprint Overlay on Illustration Board

The view from my mom's balcony.

€320

Cine Diana

76,5x57(cm)

Ink Monoprint on Arches Paper. Projection

The outdoor movie theater.

€800

Cine Diana Ephemera

61x91(cm)

Pen, Pencil Monoprint Originals

this is the largest monoprint i have ever attempted. This is the original drawing that was transferred to the Cine Diana piece. I kept all of the small drawings used to make the monoprint collages from my sketchbook and compiled them here.

€800

Monastery Cafe Ghost

35,5x28(cm) Yupo Paper

In the winter My Dad would walk to Meletis' cafe at the monastery. He would drink a greek coffee and talk politics with Meleti or work on crossword puzzles. The ghostly figures are my mom and daughter and I, coming back every year on the last day that he walked there, August 11th.
€500

Ephemera Two

41x51(cm)

Pen, Pencil Monoprint Originals

pieces used to make the large monoprint collages assembled to make a portrait of me.

€500

Zargana Monastery Beach

41x51(cm)

Acrylic with Ink Monoprint Overlay on Illustration Board

My dad had a little speed boat in the 90's and early 00's. He would take us out and my brother Ari would go spearfishing and my daughter, a very young Théa, would swim next to him in her bright blue Snoopy swimsuit with a hot pink ruffle on the butt. The largest fish my brother ever managed to spear was a pencilfish, so thin that the spear nearly decapitated it entirely.

€450

Neorio Goats

41x51(cm)

Acrylic with Ink Monoprint Overlay on Illustration Board

I love driving around the island on my mom's little moped and stopping near Russian Bay to discuss life with the extremely sociable goats.

€450

Faneromeni Porou Sleeping Lady

41x51(cm)

Acrylic with Ink Monoprint Overlay on Illustration Board

Coming in to Poros on the back of the ferry boat, looking out to the sleeping lady (why is it that after 30 years on this island, we still have to look to her whenever we can)?

€450

Fousa Seagulls

35,5x28(cm)

Acrylic, Oil Stick and Ink Monoprint Overlay on Yupo

The view from Fousa when you drive around the island is so incredibly beautiful.

€380

Poros Town Seagulls

12,5x17,5(cm)

Ink on Yupo. Lightbox
€220

Galata

12x17,5(cm)

Acrylic and Pencil on Arches Paper
€200

Dreaming of Panagitsa

59x42(cm)

Acrylic and Neon Pastels

When I lost my Dad I was incredibly distraught. This piece was made at an Artist's Residency in Italy a year later and reflects the tumultuous feelings I had towards a Poros without him.
€680