Nicholas Panayi was born in 1961 in Cyprus, where he works.

His approach is to reach the most inner of the artist expressions, strong as the statements of the 20th Century artists who have used any means to express something that would hook the audience to the image, as if it were a passage to a more intimate look, as if it were a cut, a hole in the canvas, to represent the unapologetic attitude to destroy and deconstruct past forms of art. It also is, to him, the expression of body and soul, together in a unique form.

His bodies, which have been his main point of interest until now, come from darkness, from a nothingness that is the multitude of all the human beings, that is our everyday life. The naked bodies that emerge, are the solid form of a symbol: strength but also vulnerability of the flesh, personal life and universal mythology, dream and reality.