Soula Mantalvanos – artist and designer, Melbourne Australia

Soula has a great love for both design and the visual arts. Beginning her professional career as creative director of ooi.com.au, a design company she owns together with her husband Theo, Soula also had the opportunity to exhibit her fine art paintings and prints at various Melbourne galleries. 

Soula explores different bodies of work through many mediums, initially beginning by sketching before progressing works in acrylics and oils, various printmaking forms and egg tempera where subject matter permits. 

Through whimsical characters, building facades and/or streetscapes, Soula’s subjects reflect her cultural heritage, travel, and personal life experiences – one of which is living with chronic pain. 

A sea change from Melbourne now sees Soula Co-Directing Queenscliff Gallery (QG) with her husband Theo on the Bellarine Peninsula. Soula more broadly applies her fine art and design experience by curating exhibitions and managing QG’s brand and identity.

QG represents Australian artists and is housed in an 1868 Wesleyan church space.

Soula’s work is available at QG and at The Convent, Daylesford.

Soula Painting at Piscina S Moise, Venice

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Creative highlights & recent work