Grew up and went to school in Athens and Australia (1951-1953)
Attended Oskar Kokoschka’s ‘School of Seeing’ in Salzburg, Austria, in the summer of 1963
Won a Painting Prize and Certificate written by Kokoschka which contributed to her acceptance as a student of Painting by the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1964.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan studied Painting and Printing 1966 - 1967
Wimbledon School of Art, London ( attended as a ‘mature student’ from 1988 until 1989)
BA Honours First class Degree from Wimbledon School of Art, 1989
1989 First gave lecture with three fellow painters at the Wimbledon School of `Art on the authenticity problems of the National Gallery London Samson and Delilah attributed to Peter Paul Rubens
In 1992 Sent (with two other painters) a 16-page Report to the National Gallery, London of the Samson and Delilah’s problems of Provenance and Style. InRubensName.org
In 1996 - present contributed to several articles in the British, French and Belgian press about the Samson and Delilah story. (Times, Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, La Liberation, etc)
1988-1995 Researched, Wrote and published The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt, Thames and Hudson (London 1995), Abrams (New York 1995) and Gallimard (Paris 1995). Also Greek and Italian editions, Adam Editions (Athens, 1996) This is a large-format art book about the mummy-portraits from Roman Egypt
Won a Prize for this work: le Prix BORDIN Prix d’Ouvrage 1995 awarded by the INSTITUT DE FRANCE, ACADÉMIE DES BEAUX-ARTS
Lectured at The Getty Museum,USA (1994) the British Museum, London (1996). In other venues lectured for over two years on the Fayum Portraits while writing the book on the ‘Rubens affair’ (still unpublished) challenging the authenticity of the Samson and Delilah in the National Gallery London
Curated an Exhibition of Fayum Portraits in 1998, “From the Fayum Portraits to Early Byzantine Painting” in Greece, in three venues: The Vikelaia Herakleion Municipal Library, in St Mark’s Venetian Church, Herakleion, Crete; The Benaki Museum, Athens and The Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki
Edited and partly wrote a fully-illustrated Catalogue (in Greek) of this Exhibition, Herakleion, 1998
Organized an International Symposium, with the late Nikos Giannadakis in the Vikelaia Library on the occasion of the exhibition in which scholars from many countries participated. May 1998 (Professors DorothyThompson,Willy Clarysse, Wiktor A. Daschewski, Thomas Matthews, Judith Herrin, Barbara Borg, Dr Susan Walker and others.)
Lectured extensively in several countries and took part in Conferences on the Fayum portraits
Continues the research begun in 1987 of the problems of the National Gallery Samson and Delilah in Museums and Libraries in the USA and Europe
2003, book, working title: RUBENS MY FOOT ! : The Strange Story of the Samson and Delilah completed but not yet published due to its controversial subject
Lectured on the Fayum Portraits in New York at the Foundation of Hellenic Culture December 15th 2003
2000- present lives in Paros, Athens and Paris (France) working as a painter and researcher. Artist in Residence lecturer and teaching the encaustic technique at The Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Paros Greece
Researching book on ancient Mosaics and the importance of the ‘emblemata’ in the understanding the technique of the lost masterpieces of ancient painting
October 2006 launched site on internet www.AfterRubens.org (More than 70.000 visitors to the site in one year. The site has won an enormous and growing support from both scholars and the wider public in general. This site is now obsolete due to Flash-player dying) and a new site in 2021 www.inRubensName.org with son Niki Mardas on the “Rubens affair”. Please visit our new site and sign our petition to the National GalleryThank you !