Crystal Award | Gallery Ring COLOUR Exhibition | December 2025

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
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist · Fashion & Jewelry Designer · Poet

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© 2025 Annita Apostolidou Platis. All rights reserved.

Crystal Artist of December 2025| Gallery Ring International Recognition

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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© 2025 Annita Apostolidou Platis. All rights reserved.

"Clarity in Disguise" Wins 1st Place at Best in Medium 2025 Art Awards

I am honored and deeply grateful to announce that my artwork Clarity in Disguise has been awarded 1st Place in the Digital Paintings / Digital Art category at the Best in Medium 2025 Art Awards, presented by Camelback Gallery.

This prestigious virtual exhibition featured 170 artworks from 17 countries across multiple categories. To see Clarity in Disguise recognized at the top of its category is a humbling and deeply meaningful moment in my journey as a visual artist.

About the Artwork

Clarity in Disguise unfolds in a realm where every glow seduces and misleads in equal measure. Inspired by the paradoxes of Alice in Wonderland, the scene is a surreal parlour of riddles and reflections:

• Teacups radiate borrowed warmth, soothing unspoken doubts.

• Layered hats brim with half-truths, casting comforting yet deceptive shadows.

• Books glow mysteriously, solving riddles only to give rise to deeper enigmas.

The central figure—poised between observer and illusionist—meets our gaze not with answers, but with silent questions. In this theatre of suspended bulbs and shifting symbols, clarity does not reveal—it performs. And in its performance, it disguises.

This piece is part of my broader collection "The Luminous Abyss", a visual journey through the emotional dualities we carry—visibility and secrecy, strength and softness, memory and transformation.

A Word of Thanks

I wish to express my sincere appreciation to the jurors and especially to Mrs. Kassandra Kaye, Founder and Managing Editor of Camelback Gallery, for this recognition and for offering a platform where digital and mixed media artists from around the world can be seen and celebrated.

I also extend heartfelt thanks to those who support my artistic path—from collectors and curators to fellow creatives and friends. Your belief in my work is the light that carries me forward.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist
Painter | Exhibition Essayist | Curator | Fashion & Jewelry Designer | Interior Designer | Poet and Writer

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