Full bloom ΙΙ, 2023
stucco on canvas
70 x 100 cm

Inflorescence, 2024
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Ruelia, 2025
stucco and acrylics on canvas
20 x 20 cm

Full bloom, 2023
stucco on canvas
100 x 120 cm

Full bloom ΙΙI, 2023
stucco on canvas
80 x 80 cm

Poppies, 2022
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Poppies ΙΙ, 2025
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Pansies, 2022
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Pansies II, 2022
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Angel Amber Kiss Pansies, 2024
stucco and acrylics on canvas
40 x 40 cm

Bouquet, 2022
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Black Petunia, 2024
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Flower Breeze, 2025
stucco and acrylics on canvas
100 x 80 cm

Breeze, 2025
stucco and acrylics on canvas
100 x 150 cm

Germination II, 2024
stucco on canvas
110 x 110 cm

Germination, 2024
stucco on canvas
100 x 120 cm

Viola, 2022
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Lavender, 2024
stucco and acrylics on canvas
30 x 30 cm

Viola, 2022
stucco and acrylics on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Morte Flora, 2024
stucco and acrylics on canvas
80 x 80 cm

Black Daisies, 2024
stucco and acrylics on canvas
80 x 80 cm

Flower Petals, 2022
stucco and acrylics on canvas
80 x 80 cm

About

In the works of Voulgaraki, the flowers—arguably one of the most enduring motifs in the history of art—are transformed into means of material exploration of the third dimension and gestural expression. Her repeated use of a schematic floral form, across the surface of the canvas creates a kind of visual mantra: a meditative engagement with the subject of still life that simultaneously honours and subverts its traditions. These are not botanical studies in the conventional sense, but flowers distilled to their essential curves and spirals, evoking more the idea of a bloom than its mimetic representation.

Voulgaraki works primarily in stucco and acrylic, a combination that allows her to sculpt the surface of her canvases as much as paint them. The thick stucco gives rise to a highly tactile, almost architectural relief, in which the repetition of floral marks becomes a choreography of gestures. Each sequence of spiral motifs demands an unbroken continuity of movement, as the artist must complete the composition in a single, sustained session before the rapid-drying acrylic begins to set—a process that renders interruption impossible. This necessity imparts a visceral gesturality to the surfaces, where each mark testifies to the immediacy of bodily exertion and the choreography of the hand, arm, and entire body engaged in rhythmic, repetitive motion across the canvas.

Colour, too, plays a complex role. In many compositions, chromatic distinctions dissolve into one another, creating soft transitions. Elsewhere, colours remain more distinct, yet always integrated into the materiality of the medium—never simply laid atop the surface but embedded within its depth. This merging evokes a kind of atmospheric stillness as Voulgaraki’s forms resist decay through their sculptural permanence.

The exhibition’s title, Florilegium, underscores the following duality—at once a literal “gathering of flowers” and a conceptual anthology of painterly gestures. Just as medieval florilegia compiled fragments of sacred and poetic texts, so too does Voulgaraki’s practice assemble a tactile vocabulary of floral forms, accumulated through repetition, variation, and embodied intensity. Set against the long history of floral still life, Voulgaraki’s works emerge as a contemporary meditation on one of art’s oldest and most intimate subjects with the aim of raising awareness about the environment and the planet.

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Artist

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Stella Voulgaraki lives and works in Athens. With an academic background in Economics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, her practice emerged independently—an enduring passion for painting that gradually asserted itself beyond the demands of a parallel professional life. Her early formative years were shaped by a close engagement with painter Stelios Mavromatis, whose mentorship and dialogue catalyzed her transition into visual art. Further private study in drawing laid the groundwork for a self-directed pursuit of a distinctly personal visual language. Working primarily in mixed media on canvas, Voulgaraki combines acrylic colours and stucco to construct textured, abstract surfaces. Her practice is deeply intuitive and emotionally driven, drawing on seasonal shifts in the natural world and the internal rhythms of memory, mood, and sensation. Her compositions evolve through layers of gestural application and erasure, evoking transformation, duality, and the tension between control and chance. Recurring motifs—rendered through repetition, reversal, and shifting light—create a lexicon of symbolic forms, where accidents reveal deliberate gestures and material becomes a conduit for psychological and sensory experience. Her works often carry autobiographical traces, imbued with the chromatic memory of lived moments and states of mind. Voulgaraki’s work has been acquired by the Museum of Nevada’s Art Collection and appears in many private collections internationally. She has been featured in publications including International Contemporary Masters and Art in Focus: The Modern Masters. In 2018, she was awarded the Woman Contemporary Art Award by Musa International Art Space, Madrid.

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STELLA VOULGARAKI, FLORILEGIUM, ROMA GALLERY

Roma Gallery presents Stella Voulgaraki: Florilegium, a solo exhibition of new works by the Athens-based artist, on view from 8 May to 7 June 2025. Featuring a series of richly textured stucco and acrylic paintings of flower motifs, the exhibition explores the enduring subject of the flower through abstract, repetition and materiality.In the works of Voulgaraki, the flowers—arguably one of the most enduring motifs in the history of art—are transformed into means of material exploration of the third dimension and gestural expression. Her repeated use of a schematic floral form, across the surface of the canvas creates a kind of visual mantra: a meditative engagement with the subject of still life that simultaneously honours and subverts its traditions.….

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Stella Voulgaraki
Florilegium

Duration:
8.5.25 – 7.6.2025

Full bloom, 2023
stucco on canvas
100 x 120 cm