Vasiliou Valentinos was born on October 10, 1981 in Limassol, Cyprus. He finished high school education in 1999 and he then fullfilled his military obligations in Cyprus army for 26 months. After his release in 2001 and until today he lives in Thessaloniki Greece, where he finished his degree of IT programming at the Alexandrio Techological Institute. He begun his artistic search very young, concentrating on portraits in coal till the age of 20. After his first oil painting "The Greek actor", he became fascinated with the material and since then he paints in oil and aquarelle. Valentinos has never received an art class in his life since he always wanted to preserve intact his individualism in creation and the expression of his fears and doubts in his personal voyage from a blank canvas to a live work of art.
