Roza
Artist-Painter
Roza Tarpagkou was born in 1983 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering, yet her creative curiosity soon led her beyond the boundaries of science. Since 2014, she has been living and working in France, where her artistic journey has gradually taken shape.
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After several years as a researcher at the University of Grenoble, Roza chose to follow her lifelong passion for art and painting, embarking on a new path in 2023. She studied mixed media at the École des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble, drawing at the École Nationale Supérieure in Paris, portraiture at the École Nationale Supérieure in Lyon, and Art History at the École du Louvre.
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Her paintings explore the delicate dialogue between nature and memory, blending emotion, structure, and atmosphere. She is actively participating in international group exhibitions in France and Greece, and in 2025 she held her first solo exhibition in France.
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Her connection to nature has become an inseparable part of her daily life. Through snowshoeing across silent winter landscapes, hiking along rugged trails, and climbing toward distant peaks, she has learned to see the world from a different perspective. Each journey outdoors awakens emotions that she feels compelled to transform into art, allowing her experiences to find voice and color on canvas.
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Born by the sea in Greece, she grew up with the rhythm of the waves and the endless horizon as her constant companions. The sea became her sanctuary—a place of calm, reflection, and imagination. It continues to flow through her work as both memory and muse.
Her paintings are often inspired by photographs from her travels and vivid recollections of sunlit coastlines, where reality and dream gently blend together. Those memories gave life to her first collection, La nature à travers mon regard—a celebration of nature seen through her eyes and emotions.
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Roza’s works are held in private collections and are available through selected galleries as well as on her personal Instagram page and the current Webpage.
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Words of the Artist about her Collections:
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Each collection is a chapter in my personal journey—an intimate dialogue between place, memory, and emotion. My work is guided by light, silence, and the rhythm of the natural world. Through painting, I seek to translate what cannot be spoken: the quiet resonance of landscapes, the geometry of stillness, and the fleeting impressions that remain long after the moment has passed.
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Mediterranean Collection is a tribute to the landscapes that have shaped my soul—from the sunlit shores of my Greek homeland to the serene beauty of the south of France, where I once lived and where my heart returns each year.
Born by the sea, I grew up with the rhythm of the waves and the endless horizon as my constant companions. The sea became my sanctuary—a place of calm, reflection, and imagination. It continues to flow through my work as both memory and muse.
My paintings draw inspiration from photographs of my travels and vivid recollections of sunlit coastlines, where reality and dream gently intertwine.
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Provence & Alps Collection is inspired by the breathtaking landscapes of southern France—a region of radiant light, timeless charm, and majestic contrasts. From the golden fields and lavender-scented hills of Provence to the towering peaks of the French Alps, this land never ceases to move me.
In recent years, my home—when I am not traveling—has been in Grenoble, nestled at the foot of the Alps. Being surrounded by these summits fills me with awe and creative energy. Each visit to Provence, with its gentle colors and sunlit serenity, lingers in my mind like a vivid dream. Together, these places form a landscape of emotion and memory that I feel compelled to capture on canvas—a dialogue between earth and sky, stillness and movement, reality and reverie.
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Architectures of Silence is a tribute to my curiosity, shaped by my background in engineering—a continuous pursuit of light, shadow, and structure. My inspiration flows from the ancient aqueducts hidden beneath the earth in Greece and Turkey to the quiet geometry of modern cities at night.
In this collection, I explore the dialogue between the built and the unseen, where human ingenuity meets stillness, and where silence becomes an architecture of light and reflection. Each work is a meditation on balance and presence—a search for the spaces where form and feeling quietly converge.
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Vagues Collection is inspired by the wild, untamed beauty of the Atlantic Ocean. During my travels along the French and Spanish coasts, I was deeply moved by the immense power of nature—the vast waves crashing against rugged cliffs, the rhythmic roar of the sea echoing through the air.
There was a hypnotic quality in this raw spectacle, a balance between awe and serenity that held me still for hours. The sound and motion of the waves seemed to speak in their own language, and when I returned to my studio, I felt an irresistible need to translate those impressions—the energy, the sound, the memory—onto the canvas.
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Abstract Collection was born almost by accident. The first painting, La Forêt, was originally intended to become something entirely different. Yet, when it was finished, the result brought me an unexpected sense of aesthetic satisfaction and emotional clarity.
During its creation, I felt emotions surface that had long remained hidden—feelings that words could not reach. From this experience, the collection emerged as a way to give form to what is intangible: a visual language through which I could express the deeper, often inexplicable layers of myself.
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