Short BIO
Liana Vagianou is a Greek architect and a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of the surreal, the organic, and the intuitive.
Drawing on architectural precision and fluid, nature-inspired linework, she creates intricate compositions that invite contemplative engagement.
Her debut colouring book Intuitive Dialogues - A Surreal Colouring Experience, invites colourists into a joyful, meditative dialogue with their own imagination.
The first volume was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies.
Following her retirement from a long architectural career, Liana is now fully dedicated to the development of this series and related creative projects.
For Publishers:
This private page presents professional background information and submission material for Intuitive Dialogues - A Surreal Colouring Experience, facilitating editorial review and access to full project documentation.
Selected CV - Education & Professional Background
Liana studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a Master's degree in environmentally conscious design. She conducted doctoral research on urban identity at the National Technical University of Athens.
Across her architectural career, she designed homes, public buildings and civic spaces throughout Greece, working both independently and within Municipal Technical Services. She also taught art-related subjects and delivered lectures and workshops on public spaces and urban form in local and international forums.
While architecture provided structure and discipline to her creative process, her artistic practice has consistently explored emotion, intuitive perception and layered visual storytelling. Shaped by an architectural eye yet deliberately free from formal constraints, her drawings reflect organic rhythms and expressive fluidity.
Selected Art Exhibitions:
2007 - Painting Compliments Poetry, Villa Koundouros, organised by the Cultural Sector of the Municipality of Chania
2009 - A Big Step for Haiti, Villa Koundouros, organised by the Cultural Sector of the Municipality of Chania
2010 - Flowers and Demons, Villa Koundouros, organised by the Cultural Sector of the Municipality of Chania
2012 - Portrait, Horos Art Gallery, Chania
2016 - Olympian Beings at Large, Horos Art Gallery, Chania
2017 - Architects + Visual Arts, Mediterranean Center of Architecture (MCA), organised by the Chania Architectural Association
2018 - Little Christmas Stories, Themistokles Papaioannou Art Gallery
Honours, Awards, Publications
Liana's early architectural work was exhibited at the B' Biennale of Young Artists in Barcelona in 1987 and published in the annual review Architecture in Greece, Vol. 22/1987, edited by Orestis Doumanis.
She received Certificates of Artistic Achievement in the Luxembourg Art Prize international competition in 2018 and 2024.
Professional & Project Details
Location: Crete, Greece
Languages: Greek (native), English (fluent)
Book language: English (also translated into Chinese and Spanish)
Artistic media: Colour pencils, aquarelle, oil on canvas
Creation process: Hand-drawn originals, vectorised in Adobe Illustrator; original cover artwork hand-coloured in colour pencil
Submission Material
The proposal includes:
A. Overview
B. Target audience
C. Comparable / competing titles - differentiation
D. Vision (for future work) & series potential
E. Technical & production details
F. Marketing potential
A curated preview of selected spreads is available on the accompanying private page.
Inside the Book
Liana welcomes collaborations with publishers seeking visually distinctive, nature-inspired work that rewards slow, attentive engagement.
Her practice bridges architectural structure and intuitive expression, offering a visual language suited to both editorial publishing and thoughtful product development.
