Featured Artist

Annual Harvest Artist 2027 Edition

The collaboration is part of a broader effort: encouraging young people to pursue interests in both fine art and olive cultivation, two crafts that in Greece have always been passed down hand to hand rather than learned from a book. The bottle itself carries that same commitment: the ceramic vessel is handmade in Greece, as are the hand-made olive wood stoppers from Corfu that finish each one. Born in 1965, Spyriounis has spent four decades painting the landscapes, portraits, and botanical wreaths that define the Greek visual tradition, including olive, laurel, pomegranate, ivy, and vine. 

His standing in Greek art is reflected in where his work now lives: the National Gallery of Greece, the Athens Municipal Gallery, the Hellenic Parliament’s collection, and the War Museum, alongside private collections that include those of Marianna V. Vardinoyannis and George H. W. Bush.

Spyriounis studied painting under Yannis Tsarouchis and Vrasidas Vlachopoulos, two of the defining figures of modern Greek art, and studied sculpture under Natalia Mela and conservation under Tassos Margaritoff. That apprenticeship model is exactly what we want to hold up. Τέχνη Ελαίας exists to carry forward Greek craft, in the grove and on the canvas alike, and an artist trained directly by masters of the previous generation is living proof that mentorship works, proof we hope encourages young people.