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Emerald Artist of the Year | Gallery Ring | Annita Apostolidou Platis

Honored to be named Emerald Artist of the Year 2025 by Gallery Ring, this journal entry reflects on artistic vision, color as narrative, and the quiet power of sustained creative dialogue.

Being named Emerald Artist of the Year 2025 by Gallery Ring is an honor I receive with deep gratitude and quiet reflection. This distinction marks a meaningful moment within my artistic journey — one that recognizes not only a single artwork, but a sustained dialogue between concept, color, symbolism, and emotional depth.

Gallery Ring’s Artists of the Year program celebrates artists whose work demonstrates clarity of vision, consistency of voice, and a strong symbolic language across their practice. To be included among this year’s honorees is both humbling and affirming, especially within such a diverse and international artistic community.

The artwork presented in this context comes from my ongoing series When Color Knows the Script, where color is not treated as an aesthetic choice alone, but as a narrative force. In this body of work, color carries memory, emotion, and intention, guiding the story before form or object takes shape. The awarded work, Between Yes and No, explores the suspended moment before a decision is made: a threshold where certainty dissolves and inner truth quietly emerges.

This recognition arrives as part of Gallery Ring’s annual Artists of the Year 2025 presentation, which honors four artists across different distinctions : Ruby, Crystal, Sapphire, and Emerald. The Emerald title accompanies my name in future Gallery Ring features and acknowledges a body of work that balances visual refinement with conceptual resonance.

What makes this award especially meaningful is Gallery Ring’s continued commitment to thoughtful curation, long-term visibility, and genuine support of artists beyond a single exhibition cycle. The Emerald Artist of the Year distinction includes a forthcoming interview and special feature to be presented during 2026, extending the conversation around the work and its themes.

Art, for me, is not about spectacle. It is about presence. It is about listening to material, to memory, to silence. This recognition feels less like a culmination and more like a continuation: an invitation to deepen the work, to remain attentive, and to move forward with care and integrity.

I extend my sincere thanks to the Gallery Ring team for their vision, professionalism, and dedication to creating meaningful platforms for artists worldwide. To be part of this year’s Artists of the Year is an honor I carry with respect and gratitude.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist

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Golden Trio Award – FLOWER 2026 | Gallery Ring | Rugs & Reverence series by Annita Apostolidou Platis

Awarded the Golden Trio Award at Gallery Ring’s FLOWER 2026 exhibition, Annita Apostolidou Platis presents Remnant, Veil, and Sanctum from her Rugs & Reverence series — works that explore memory, devotion, and cultural continuity through symbolic objects and floral forms.

What a luminous way to begin the new year,

surrounded by gratitude, recognition, and creative intention.

I am deeply honored to receive the Golden Trio Award from Gallery Ring in the FLOWER International Juried Exhibition 2026 for my artworks Remnant, Veil, and Sanctum, from the ongoing series Rugs & Reverence.

This special and rare award is reserved for artists who demonstrate exemplary skill, creativity, and originality across three artworks within a single submission — a recognition that celebrates both artistic consistency and conceptual depth.

My work invites the viewer to see art objects, vintage accessories, and statement garments not as surface decoration, but as a living archive — where heritage, care, and reverence continue to unfold. Floral forms and handcrafted elements become symbolic vessels, carrying personal memory and cultural continuity across time.

The series Rugs & Reverence is structured around two interconnected realms: Creatures of Memory and Objects of Devotion.
The awarded works belong to the Objects of Devotion section, where heirloom references, botanical symbolism, and historic textile influences converge to create quiet altars of remembrance.

Drawing from ancient rugs, historic fabrics, and ornamental traditions, each piece is composed as a quiet act of preservation. Through digital artistry, these objects are reimagined while honoring their ceremonial presence. They are not simply decorative forms, but reflections on what is carried, tended, and remembered.

I extend my sincere gratitude to Gallery Ring for this meaningful recognition and for their continued support of artists worldwide.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis
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1st Place – Diamond Snowflake Award | Gallery Ring | Holiday Advent Show

A moment of recognition and reflection — The Nutcracker’s Muse receives the 1st Place Diamond Snowflake Award at Gallery Ring’s Holiday Advent Show 2025, marking a meaningful milestone in an ongoing artistic journey.

A beautiful closing to the year

I am deeply honored to share that The Nutcracker’s Muse has been awarded 1st Place – Diamond Snowflake Award at Gallery Ring’s Holiday Advent Show 2025, following its selection as the Official Artwork for December 24.

This recognition marks a meaningful moment within my ongoing artistic journey. The Holiday Advent Show celebrates creative expression through a curated, international platform, and I am grateful for the thoughtful way this work was received and presented.

The Nutcracker’s Muse reflects an inner landscape of memory, ritual, and quiet symbolism — a meditation on winter, reflection, and the unseen narratives that shape us. The piece belongs to my ongoing exploration of seasonal mythologies, where emotion and symbolism intertwine to form a visual language of stillness and depth.

I am thankful to Gallery Ring for the opportunity to be part of this inspiring initiative and for their continued support of artists worldwide.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis
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1st Place – Diamond Snowflake Award | Gallery Ring | December 2025

The Nutcracker’s Muse, part of The Seasons – Special Edition, receives the 1st Place Diamond Snowflake Award at Gallery Ring. A contemplative winter artwork exploring memory, symbolism, and inner reflection.

I am deeply honored to receive the 1st Place – Diamond Snowflake Award at Gallery Ring – The Holiday Advent Show for my artwork “The Nutcracker’s Muse.”

December is especially meaningful to me. A month woven with memories, dreams, hopes, plans, goals, and lived moments. It carries the emotional weight of reflection and renewal—of looking back while quietly envisioning what lies ahead.

The Nutcracker’s Muse is my winter artistic creation from “The Seasons – Special Edition”, a collection that explores each season as a living mythos—a space where personal memory and cultural ritual converge. In this work, winter is not presented merely as a time of cold and stillness, but as an interior landscape, where imagination, nostalgia, and symbolism quietly commune.

Here, I reinterpret the iconic Nutcracker figure not as the central hero of the familiar play, but as a guardian spirit. An emblem of vigilance, tradition, and childhood wonder, poised above the mind of his muse. The central figure, serene yet intensely present, embodies the contemplative nature of the season. Her face becomes a vessel of quiet storytelling: ornamental glasses shaped as porcelain and an owl invite the viewer to look beyond surface beauty into layered inner worlds. The porcelain speaks to the past and inherited memory, while the owl symbolizes wisdom, inner strength, protection, and guidance.

Surrounding her is a constellation of winter’s symbolic language: framed ornaments, golden bells, mistletoe, and heirloom-like decorations that hover between memory and dream. These elements echo the cherished objects that resurface during winter rituals—tokens revisited year after year, each holding fragments of emotional history.

For me, winter is a season of introspection. Its stillness allows intuition to rise, offering space for the stories we carry from childhood to resurface and gently reshape themselves. The Nutcracker’s Muse reflects this inward journey—honoring the delicate interplay between remembrance and reinvention, and the quiet magic that lives in the spaces between light and shadow.

Grateful.

With this artwork, I wish you Happy Holidays filled with health and light.

With Gratitude

My heartfelt thanks to the Gallery Ring team for their vision, professionalism, and continued dedication to supporting artists worldwide. Being recognized within such an inspiring international artistic community is truly meaningful, and I am grateful for the care and intention behind The Holiday Advent Show.

This award marks a moment of reflection and affirmation—one that I carry forward with deep appreciation.

Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist | Curator | Essayist | Fashion & Jewelry Designer

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Crystal Award | Gallery Ring COLOUR Exhibition | December 2025

Proud to receive the Crystal Award for The Sweetness of Control in Gallery Ring’s COLOUR Exhibition 2025, with two more works honored as Finalists.

I am honored to share that my artwork The Sweetness of Control has been awarded the CRYSTAL AWARD in the COLOUR International Juried Exhibition by Gallery Ring (December 2025).

This distinction celebrates artworks that demonstrate clarity of vision, strong aesthetic cohesion, and compelling use of color. I am deeply grateful for this recognition among so many remarkable international submissions.

About the Awarded Artwork — The Sweetness of Control

The Sweetness of Control is a meditation on elegance as architecture and nostalgia as a quietly commanding force.

Balancing a richly embroidered umbrella adorned with vintage teacups, teapots, and golden spoons, the central figure becomes the embodiment of restraint veiled in ritual. Porcelain and gold hover around her like delicate weapons of etiquette—chosen, placed, and never accidental. Each object functions as both ornament and intention, transforming a familiar moment of tea into a stage of subtle dominance. The refined palette of vintage reds, warm golds, and porcelain blues evokes the ceremonial grace of tradition—where gentleness disguises precision, and tenderness masks control. In this surreal domestic theatre, there is no sugar—only the suggestion of sweetness. Tea time becomes less an indulgence and more a choreography of gesture, grace, and hidden power.

To serve is not to surrender—it is to orchestrate.

Additional Recognitions — COLOUR 2025

Two additional artworks from When Color Knows the Script were honored as Finalists in the same exhibition:

What Falls in Velvet Silence
Whispers and Voices

These distinctions further affirm the narrative, symbolic depth, and evolving international presence of the series.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis
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Crystal Artist of December 2025| Gallery Ring International Recognition

Honored to be named Crystal Artist of December 2025 by Gallery Ring for my artwork Between Yes and No, a piece exploring the quiet tension between choice, identity, and emotion.

In December 2025, I was honored with the title Crystal Artist of the Month by Gallery Ring for my artwork Between Yes and No, part of my series When Color Knows the Script. This distinction highlights artworks that demonstrate clarity of vision, strong conceptual presence, and refined artistic execution.

Between Yes and No explores the suspended moment before choice — where thought transforms into emotion and silence becomes decision. The work reflects the subtle tension between certainty and hesitation, revealing how identity takes shape in the quiet spaces between contrasting states.

This recognition includes a showcase in the official 3D Rotation Gallery on Gallery Ring’s homepage, as well as a dedicated Winners Video on their YouTube channel.

🔹 3D Rotation Gallery

🔹 Winners Video

I am deeply grateful to Gallery Ring for this honor and for their continuous commitment to supporting the international artistic community with professionalism, integrity, and exceptional curation.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist · Fashion & Jewelry Designer · Poet

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Ruby Award | The Ornament of Dawn |November 2025| Gallery Ring, Canada

Honored with the Ruby Award at Gallery Ring’s ANIMAL 2025 Exhibition for The Ornament of Dawn, a work from my series Rugs & Reverence celebrating equine symbolism, ornamental heritage, and ancestral memory.

Gallery Ring · ANIMAL International Juried Exhibition 2025

I am deeply honored to receive the Ruby Award, one of Gallery Ring’s most distinguished recognitions, for my artwork The Ornament of Dawn from the series Rugs & Reverence.

About the Artwork

The Ornament of Dawn captures a moment where light, memory, and heritage converge.
Crimson and gold rise like morning fire on the horse’s face, while floral arabesques and geometric tracings echo the timeless language of woven traditions. In this piece, the horse becomes a living emblem of endurance, beauty, and devotion — a quiet prayer in motion.

About the Series

Rugs & Reverence is a meditation on ancestry and symbolism.
In this collection, animals serve as vessels of remembrance, carrying the woven stories of ancient civilizations. Through digital collage, ornamental pattern, and painterly texture, each work explores how design becomes spirit and how beauty becomes faith.

I extend my sincere thanks to Gallery Ring for this honor and for their continued support of artists around the world.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist · Fashion & Jewelry Designer · Poet

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Crystal Award — The Sapphire Whisper |November 2025| Gallery Ring, Canada

Awarded the Crystal Award at Gallery Ring’s ANIMAL 2025 Exhibition for The Sapphire Whisper, a work exploring indigo light, sacred geometry, and symbolic quietude.

Gallery Ring · ANIMAL International Juried Exhibition 2025

Honored to receive the Crystal Award for my artwork The Sapphire Whisper, presented as part of the ANIMAL International Juried Exhibition 2025 by Gallery Ring.

About the Artwork

The Sapphire Whisper is an ode to serenity.
Bathed in indigo light, the Arabian horse becomes a symbol of inner stillness and sacred geometry. The blue ornamental tracings evoke the woven artistry of ancient carpets, while a single gemstone reflects the quiet illumination of faith and memory.
It is the whisper of the Silk Road — where movement and myth once intertwined.

About the Series

Part of Rugs & Reverence, this work continues my exploration of animals as carriers of ancestral wisdom.
Through digital illumination and textile-inspired aesthetics, the series investigates how ornament becomes language and how pattern becomes pulse.

My heartfelt thanks to Gallery Ring for this recognition and for celebrating artists across cultures and mediums.

Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist · Fashion & Jewelry Designer · Poet

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Genesis: A Celebration of Spring & Artistic Recognition

Thrilled to share that my artwork Genesis received the Crystal Award (Top 10) in Gallery Ring’s Spring Countdown Show 2025. Part of The Seasons – Special Edition, it embodies renewal, rebirth, and the timeless beauty of spring.

Honored with the 9th Place Crystal Award – Gallery Ring's Spring Countdown Show

"Genesis" Earns Crystal Award | Gallery Ring Spring Countdown Show: Celebrating Spring & Artistic Excellence

I am beyond thrilled to share that my artwork "Genesis" has been awarded 9th Place – Crystal Award in the prestigious Spring Countdown Show by Gallery Ring (Ontario, Canada). This recognition places me among the Top 10 artists, an incredible honor that acknowledges the depth, skill, and creative vision behind my work.

Genesis: The Essence of Renewal

Part of my "The Seasons – Special Edition" collection, "Genesis" captures the energy and transformation of Spring—a time of renewal, rebirth, and vibrant growth. Inspired by chrysanthemums and vintage elegance, the piece reflects the delicate balance between history and the ever-evolving present. Through intricate layering and symbolic storytelling, this artwork embodies the freshness of new beginnings and the timeless beauty of nature’s cycles.

The Significance of the Crystal Award

The Crystal Awards at Gallery Ring are reserved for artworks of superior quality, recognizing artists who demonstrate:✅ Mastery of skill✅ Artistic excellence✅ Strong emotional and conceptual depth

Being among the Top 10 Artists in an international competition is a meaningful moment in my artistic journey—one that reaffirms my passion for storytelling through art.

Gratitude & Reflection

I am deeply grateful to Gallery Ring for this recognition and for curating such a vibrant platform that celebrates creativity worldwide. Special thanks to the jurors for their appreciation of "Genesis", and to all art lovers who continue to support and engage with my work.

📺 Watch the special Winners Video featuring my award-winning artwork Genesis in the Spring Countdown Show 2025 by Gallery Ring:

➡ Watch on YouTube :The Spring Countdown Show 2025

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Honored by Gallery Ring: "Winter’s Embrace" Official Selection for The Holiday Advent Show 2024

Honored to share that my artwork “Winter’s Embrace” from The Seasons collection received an Official Selection at Gallery Ring’s Holiday Advent Show 2024, celebrating its emotional depth and artistry.

Winter’s Embrace Official Selection Gallery Ring

I am deeply honored to have my artwork "Winter's Embrace" from The Seasons collection selected for the prestigious Holiday Advent Show 2024. This recognition means so much to me, as it celebrates both the emotional depth and technical skill within the piece.

A special thank you to Gallery Ring for the Official Selection Award Certificate and for sharing my message in their testimonial section on their homepage. Their continuous support plays a vital role in my artistic journey.

As we step into 2025, I’m excited to continue exploring themes of inner strength and transformation in my work. Thank you to everyone who has supported me—more creative endeavors await!

Wishing all a joyful and inspiring New Year! 🌟

Annita Apostolidou Platis

Visual Artist

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"Winter's Embrace" Official Selection – The Holiday Advent Show, Gallery Ring

Honored to announce that “Winter’s Embrace” from The Seasons collection received an Official Selection Award at Gallery Ring’s Holiday Advent Show 2024, recognizing its emotional depth and narrative of winter’s resilience.

Award: Official Selection for Winter's Embrace from The Seasons Collection

It is with great honor that I share my official selection for the prestigious Holiday Advent Show by Gallery Ring. My artwork Winter’s Embrace from The Seasons collection has been recognized for its emotional depth, technical skill, and the powerful narrative it conveys about the strength and solitude of winter.

This recognition reflects the balance I sought to capture between the quiet resilience of the season and the emotional stillness that it inspires. Being selected for such a distinguished exhibition and receiving the Official Selection Award Certificate reinforces my commitment to exploring themes of inner strength and transformation through art.

I am deeply grateful to Gallery Ring for providing this platform for my work, and for their ongoing support and recognition of my artistic journey. I look forward to continuing to create art that resonates with audiences and encourages meaningful reflection.

Annita Apostolidou Platis

Visual Artist

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Award of Merit

Honored to receive the Award of Merit at Gallery Ring Abstract 2022 for my artwork Nemesis, part of the Words collection — a symbolic exploration of balance and justice.

Abstract 2022 - Gallery Ring

“Nemesis” artwork from my collection “Words”.

I am honored to share that my artwork “Nemesis” from the Words collection received an Award of Merit at the Abstract 2022 Exhibition organized by Gallery Ring.

This recognition is deeply meaningful, as Nemesis embodies themes of balance, justice, and destiny — a symbolic dialogue between the ancient and the modern. To see this piece acknowledged in an international art context is both humbling and inspiring.

I extend my gratitude to the Gallery Ring jury for recognizing the vision behind my work, and I am thrilled to celebrate this milestone as part of my continuing artistic journey.

— Annita Apostolidou Platis

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