PERSONAL DETAILS Lady Magdalene Theocharis was born in 1954 in Lamia,Greece. She currently lives and works in Athens where she has a private workshop. ART STUDIES For many years, Magdalene Theocharis studied mosaic art combining her theoretical grounding with the mastery of traditional and contemporary mosaic materials and techniques having mosaic artists, painters, sculptors, and mosaic conservators of high distinction as teachers. PARTICIPATION IN EXHIBITIONS Magdalene Theocharis has been actively participating in national and international visual arts exhibitions. In October 2000 she participated in the International Exhibition held by AIMC (Associazione Internazionale dei Mosaicisti Contemporanei) at the Franciscan Monastery in Ravenna. In October 2002 she held her first personal exhibition entitled %u201CMOSAIC ART THROUGHOUT THE PASSAGE OF TIME%u201D at the Town Gallery of Mykonos Island. The exhibition had a great success. AWARDS Magdalene Theocharis was twice awarded for her mosaic work by Parnassos Philological Society in Athens. CURRENT MEMBERSHIP Member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA), S. Carolina, USA. Member of the British Association for Modern Mosaic (BAMM), Exeter, UK. Member of the Greek Decorators and Morphologists Union, Athens. Member of AIMC (Associazione Internazionale dei Mosaicisti Contemporanei), based in Ravenna. CURRENT ACTIVITIES Magdalene Theocharis is actively occupied with indoor and outdoor mosaic creations, decorations, applications and restoration, combining the traditional with the contemporary aspects of this art. For the time being, she is getting prepared for her second personal exhibition to take place in Athens in 2006 while considering holding a third one in Brussels.