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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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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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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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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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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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Welcome to "Legends - the Code"

Welcome to “Legends – The Code,” a powerful art series by Annita Apostolidou Platis. Through ten mixed media digital collages and poems, mythological women are reimagined as symbols of strength, resilience, and timeless influence in today’s world.

New series of artworks by Annita Apostolidou Platis

"Welcome to "Legends – The Code," a series of ten mixed media digital collages that bridge the past with the present by weaving the tales of mythological women whose stories of strength, resilience, and power echo through the ages. Following my previous collection, "Links," which explored the connectivity between women, nature, mythology, and history, this new series delves deeper into the personas of legendary women who have shaped cultural narratives about femininity and fortitude.

Each artwork, accompanied by a poem, forms a narrative woven from the vibrant threads of ancient mythology, reimagined through a modern lens. As you engage with each piece, you are invited to decode the hidden messages embedded within the canvases, enriching your appreciation of these powerful narratives. This exploration is not merely an artistic journey but a cultural dialogue, enhancing our understanding of how these legendary figures continue to influence contemporary life.

Through this series, I aim to celebrate the legendary past while drawing meaningful parallels to the experiences of modern women, illustrating that the core of human experience remains constant even as contexts change."

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A Season of Artistic Reflection

Annita Apostolidou Platis closes the Spring International Art Exhibition with gratitude and inspiration. Featuring her artwork The Gift, The One Who Holds The Elixir and honored with a Certificate of Artistic Merit, she reflects on impermanence, curatorial practice, and the collaborative spirit that shaped the event.

Closing Thoughts on the Spring International Art Exhibition

As the curtains close on the Spring International Art Exhibition at the Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation, I find myself enveloped in a profound sense of gratitude and inspiration. This exhibition not only showcased diverse talents and perspectives but also provided me with a unique opportunity to engage with art in the dual roles of artist and curator.

The art piece "The Gift, The One Who Holds The Elixir," which featured in the exhibition, explores the delicate impermanence of beauty, captured through the ethereal symbolism of the cherry blossom. This theme resonated deeply with the audience, prompting reflections on the transient yet impactful moments that define our existence.

I am deeply honored to have been awarded the Certificate of Artistic Merit by the foundation. This accolade is not just a recognition of my individual contribution but also a testament to the collaborative spirit that animated this event. The foundation's feedback—"Your contributions significantly enriched the event, and your unwavering commitment to your artistry was vividly evident in your works"—is particularly gratifying. It reaffirms my dedication to pushing the boundaries of artistic expression and engagement.

Behind the scenes, the journey was equally enriching. Working alongside a vibrant community of artists and thinkers, I was able to weave a narrative that extended beyond the visual and ventured into the experiential. From the initial concept to the final day of the exhibition, every step was a learning curve, steeped in the collective ethos of creative exploration.

As I reflect on these experiences, the recognition I received is not merely a personal achievement but a bridge to future artistic endeavors. It is a reminder of the responsibilities and possibilities that come with curatorial and artistic practices—of curating not just art but also curating life's ephemeral stories.

Looking forward, I am excited about the paths that now lay open. The interactions, insights, and inspirations from this exhibition will undoubtedly shape my future projects. I am eager to explore new horizons, continue my dialogues with fellow artists, and contribute to the vibrant tapestry of the global art community.

Thank you to everyone who visited, engaged with, and supported this exhibition. Your enthusiasm fuels the art we create and the stories we tell. Here's to continuing this beautiful journey together, with art as our shared language and exploration as our collective adventure. - Annita A.

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Thank you so much for this presentation🌹 it is an honor

Annita Apostolidou Platis proudly serves as both curator and artist for the BCAF Spring International Art Exhibition in Barcelona (June 10–30, 2024). With her artwork The Gift (The One Who Holds The Elixir), she explores the themes of rebirth and renewal while guiding the curatorial narrative of the exhibition.

Thank you so much for this presentation🌹 it is an honor. I sincerely express my gratitude for this enriching collaboration.

I'm thrilled to serve as a curator for the esteemed BCAF International Art Exhibition, themed 'Spring.' This vibrant event merges diverse artistic expressions and cultural narratives, offering a unique platform for exploring the dual nature of rebirth and renewal. In my accompanying article, I delve into the subtle dialogues of the season, inviting all to listen intently as nature recounts its timeless saga. I'm thrilled to both curate and participate in The Spring International Art Exhibition, showcasing my artwork, "The Gift (The One Who Holds The Elixir)".

I extend my deepest gratitude to the Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation for this enriching opportunity.

Join us in 📌Barcelona, Spain, from 📆 June 10 to June 30, 2024, for an unforgettable celebration of art and renewal at the BCAF Spring International Art Exhibition!

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🦋 🎨 Words from our curator Annita Apostolidou Platis @annita.apostolidou.platis

"Annita is a distinguished Greek painter and curator celebrated for her dynamic use of color and transformative expertise in form. Born and based in Athens, Annita began her artistic journey at the age of eight through private lessons with Dimitris Kantopoulos, a revered painter and professor at the School of Fine Arts. Her deep connection to her heritage continuously propels her to push the boundaries of contemporary art.

Annita's educational journey is as diverse as her artistic expressions, including studies in fashion at the Veloudakis Fashion School and fashion and jewelry design at the Marangoni Institute in Milan. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Fashion, a Master's Degree in Jewelry Design & Accessories, and has completed advanced studies in Interior Design.

Fluent in English, Italian, French, and Greek, Annita's art transcends linguistic barriers. She draws inspiration from various artistic movements such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Surrealism, and from artists like Erté, Alphonse Mucha, and Salvador Dali. Her work skillfully blends historical and contemporary elements.

In 2016, Annita reinvigorated her focus on fine arts, utilizing mediums such as acrylics, ink, and impasto to create surreal figures and landscapes often incorporating her own poetic compositions. Her exploration into mixed media digital collage further demonstrates her innovative approach, merging traditional techniques with digital artistry.

Annita's contributions to the art world are recognized globally, evidenced by numerous awards from prestigious art institutions. Her accolades include the "HERMES, il messaggero degli Dei" and "POSEIDONE, il Dio dei Mari" from the Accademia Italia In Arte Nel Mondo, recognitions for promoting the values of Olympism from the National Olympic Academy of Greece.and the "INTERNATIONAL CAREER AWARDS 2023 – TALENTS AND PROFESSIONALS" from the Fondazione Costanza."

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BCAF FLOWERS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2024

Honored to have Glorious Silence from my Links collection recognized at the BCAF Flowers International Exhibition 2024 in Barcelona—a celebration of art, symbolism, and gratitude.

Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation - Barcelona, Spain

Participation with artwork from “Links” collection

“I am deeply honored to have my artwork, ‘Glorious Silence,’from my latest series, "Links”, recognized at the international ‘Flowers’ exhibition in Barcelona, Spain. This accolade, a reflection of my professionalism, talent, and unwavering dedication, fills me with immense gratitude. I extend my heartfelt thanks to the BCAF for awarding me this prestigious certificate. It is a privilege to contribute to the vibrant tapestry of the art world and to have my efforts acknowledged on such a distinguished stage.”

Thank you - Annita A.

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"FLOWERS" INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Excited to announce my participation in the FLOWERS International Exhibition 2024 in Barcelona—an artistic journey celebrating the timeless beauty of flowers, hosted by BCAF.

An invitation to explore the diverse expressions of floral Beauty.

Barcelona, Spain

I feel honored to be part of another artistic journey! A celebration of floral artistry.

Coming soon....

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My Life My Art

“Serenity” — a profound artwork from the Camouflage series by Annita Apostolidou Platis, inspired by faith, stillness, and the timeless wisdom of Pythagoras.

Serenity - Annita Apostolidou Platis

“Serenity” Artwork

One of my favorite artworks with strong meanings from my collection of artworks called “Camouflage”.

It is an expression of faith and beliefs. The shapes and colours convey a strong bond and meaning.

It is like a connection to the past, a colourful and dynamic language.

As the ancient Ionian Greek philosopher Pythagoras said: Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

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