"Martha Zmpounou is primarily a figurative artist exploring themes of reverie, loss and memory. The human figure is seen as a layered, multifaceted often fragmented entity, a snapshot in time.
Working from personal archives and found imagery the works, technically, are developed through multiple layers of watercolour paint either directly on paper or through mono printing.
The works sabotage the glorious, idealized self, in its complete and coherent version. Instead, they focus on the fragmentary and the cryptic, resulting in a fragile dynamic balance between abstraction and representation.
Triggered by a trauma inflicted by her child�s near-death illness, her recent series of mono prints are an exploration of motherhood, echoing traditional pictorial depictions and relationships of co-dependency and intimacy.
Zmpounou graduated from Aristotle University of Fine art and Central Saint Martins and is a member of the Royal institute of Painter in Watercolours and a member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad and has been awarded several awards including the De Laszlo foundation award, the Cass art award, and she is one of the recent Delphian open call winners."