Tsatsos George

George Tsatsos was born in Athens and educated in Greece and Zurich (ETH), where he graduated as a civil engineer. He served in the greek Navy.

He has had a career in industry, running cement factories in Cyprus, Estonia, Poland and England, and in an advisory role in many countries, including: Poland, Croatia, Russia, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Egypt and others. In Greece he led, for about 15 years (1967-1983), Heracles General Cement, the then largest cement company in the country. He also managed building materials businesses in Poland, Latvia and England. He was based for 24 years in London. In 2009 he returned to Greece and since then lives in Kifisia-Athens.

G.T is also a painter and has exhibited in solo shows nine times, between 2001 and 2014, in London, New York (twice), Paris, Warsaw and Athens (four times). He has also produced about 16 lithographs-silkscreens.

George sees his paintings as compositions, neither abstract nor objective, but a research into shapes, colours and geometric forms which are often ambiguous or physically impossible. He also draws humorous cartoons and illustrated original alphabets.

He is married to Zoe. They have four children and eight grandchildren.