Fairytales from the Kingdom of Wizards

For Zoe, painting equals meditation. A pathway to healing and the mystical transformation of both the external and internal reality.

Fairytales from the Kingdom of Wizards and from the Secret Chest of the Sky In this section, you’ll get to find a selection of magical illustrations that happen to accompany “Fairytales from the Kingdom of Wizards and from the Secret Chest of the Sky”. They come straight from the heart of the Everlasting Kingdom, calling […]

The secret of the firefly and the loveflower

Art Work collections Zoe Nikitaki Ζωή Νικητάκη Zoe Nikitaki (Ζωή) Self-taught Painter - Illustrator, Storyteller, Author, Philologist and Psychodynamic Color Therapist

“I already lived a long time thanks to your love.” “When you love, you light up and illuminate”, her grandmother, the Wise Bird, once said to the Firefly.  “That’s the way it occurs for all beings on Earth”, she added, gracefully sipping her beloved drink made from aromatic flower nectar.   Each morning, the Firefly […]

Coloring Healing Book – Inner Visions

Colouring Healing Book - Inner Visions Art Work collections Ζωή Νικητάκι Zoe Nikitaki

Coloring Healing Book – Painting the Visions of the Inner Source In this section, you’ll find a selection of images from my Coloring Healing book. I crafted them as intricate Magical Maps, designed to lead us on a profound journey back to our origins, the Source. The place where we all came from, where our […]

Some of the magic seeds ..

Some of the magic seeds… Art Work collections Ζωή Νικητάκι Zoe Nikitaki

Some of the magic seeds… In this section, you will encounter a selection of ongoing book illustration projects as well as works that have already been published. One of my notable works, “The Celestial Child” was created for an environmental program initiated by a New Zealand fellow author and friend,  Laurel Colless. The protagonist served as […]

Zour Houzour the Magician

The Magician Zour Houzour» «Ο Μάγος Ζουρ Χουζούρ Art Work collections Ζωή Νικητάκι Zoe Nikitaki

Zour Houzour the Magician “The most effective method to commune with the Unconscious is through creativity. Create, for instance, a Fantasy.Immerse yourself in it as though it were a genuine life situation, one from which you cannot break free. All the challenges you conquer within such a fantasy are symbolic manifestations of the psychological hurdles […]

The Journey of the Wish

The journey of the Wish της Ευχή ήρθαν και συνάντησαν τα Συμπαντικά Αρχέτυπα και ταξίδεψαν μαζί τους στη μαγική Κοσμική Τελετουργία της ζωής

The Journey of the Wish The proposal to illustrate the fairy tale by the emerging author Konstantina Barla took place during the period when I was creating a series of works that would constitute the content of my exhibition, “Universal Archetypes – Symbols of the Psyche”. So, I adapted the illustration of this fairy tale […]

And You Lived, Happily Ever After

And You Lived, Happily Ever After At the moon’s edge, a fairy so petite Heard from a boat, a violin’s gentle treat As slumber embraced her in a dream so deep, She saw love’s path upon the ocean’s sweep… (From the song of the book’s CD, Moonlit Path) In this section, you will find several […]

Folk Tales of Zakynthos

Folk Tales of Zakynthos Λαϊκά παραμύθια της Ζακύνθου Art Work collections Ζωή Νικητάκι Zoe Nikitaki

Folk Tales of Zakynthos When I discovered the folk tales of Zakynthos, recorded by Marietta Minotou, a prominent folklorist and intellectual figure of the island, in the local dialect of the rural people, I was captivated by the rhythm and the music of their language, not to mention the personality of the recorder herself. It’s […]

From Heart To Heart Anything Is Possible

From Heart To Heart Anything Is Possible Art Work collections Ζωή Νικητάκι Zoe Nikitaki

To Heart Anything Is Possible This section contains some of the illustrations that essentially pertain to the first fairy tale in the book, «From heart to heart, anything is possible!», called “The Fairy Tale of the Pomegranate Tree”.   These illustrations were intentionally not integrated into the book, but, as you will discover, are placed […]

Fairytales for the truth of our heart

Fairytales for the truth of our heart Από τη σειρά έργων: “ΜΠΛΕ ΩΡΕΣ” Ακουαρέλλες σε χαρτί και σε εφημερίδα

From the series of works: “BLUE HOURS” Watercolors on paper and newspaper In the book “Fairytales for the Truth of Our Heart,” you will find some images that are watercolors on paper, and some on newspaper or created using newspaper as a collage material, most of which originate from the series “BLUE HOURS.” Some were […]

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Art for me is a secret gateway to transition and communicate with the magical parallel reality, to breathe and reconnect with my soul's song. Through art I discover every time from the beginning the path to converse with a deep and invisible side of the world, to be able to transform darkness into light and pain into a path for rebirth and transformation

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