About Us

“Akron” was created out of love and respect for our country’s history and art heritage. Our passion has forced us to deepen and systematically study the mentality behind the artworks that were created in ancient Greece, in order to come up with innovative ideas on how to revive them through our reproductions and make meaningful premium quality artworks for our clients. Each and every one of our art pieces is purely handcrafted using exceptional materials and a lot of taste.

Akron Art Center is a reproduction of ancient Greek art workshop. It is the only workshop unique for it’s type in Santorini and also one of the biggest in Greece.

Our team of painters work and reproduce artworks here in Akron Art workshop where our pieces are exhibited and sold (it’s an exhibition of 300sqm) of the Akron Art Center.

The team of painters at “Akron Art Center” began its business in 1981 in Plaka and since then continues to study and recreate works of ancient Greek art. 

 

You can find recreations of:

✓ Akrotiri Thiras Wallpaintings
✓ Minoan, Geometric and Classical era pottery from all over Greece
✓ Mosaics replicas and original works
✓ Paintings (Classical Themes)
✓ Paintings (Santorini & Cycladic thematology)

All pieces of artwork that we create are exposed and sold exclusively in Akron Art Centre

Our Artists

Classically trained artists Dimitris Bellos and Aspasia Vovola specialize in original size reproductions of wall paintings and ceramics from Ancient Akrotiri and Ancient Thera, as well as archaic Greek art from farther afield. The unique technique they have developed and established is the result of a long study on reproducing ancient artworks using the same materials that are being used for the restoration of the originals.

He studied painting in Athens and attended classes in composition and restoration of mosaics in the Vatican. For the last 21 years, he has been working on reproductions of archaic Greek art.(pottery, wallpaintings, mosaics)
She studied painting in Athens and in Dijon (France) and specialized in wallpainting.Since 1989 she has been working on the reproduction of wallpaintings, with emphasis on those found in AKROTIRI – SANTORINI