Stelios Kois was born in the vicinity of Mount Athos in Greece. The Athonian surrounding red earth landscape, the monasteries with their mystic interplay of light and shadow and the introduction to Byzantine icon painting as a youth, were to have a lasting impression upon his later work.He moved in Rome where he studied in “Universita degli studi di Roma”. A student architectural award gave him the opportunity to travel in Osaka Japan. There he studied the Japanese tradition and its focus upon...