Panayiota Koushiappa

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A visual artist and scenic designer transitioning into illustration, with 7+ years of experience in set design, painting, and visual storytelling.

About

A visual artist and scenic designer transitioning into illustration, with 7+ years of experience in set design, painting, and visual storytelling. Strong foundation in drawing, realistic painting, and creating narrative environments for stage and exhibition. Passionate about illustration that brings characters, stories, and spaces to life — using both traditional and digital tools.

  • Joined August 2025

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • Greek, ModernFluent
  • Spanish; CastilianBeginner

Industry experience

  • Other
  • Media & Entertainment

Projects · 9

A personal illustration project creating tiny fairytale like worlds in unusual settings illustrator

  • Freelance Digital Illustrator
  • Illustrator

A personal illustration project creating tiny fairytale like worlds in unusual settings illustrator

  • Freelance Digital Illustrator
  • Illustrator

Designed and made this set design for a dance performance. Influenced by the galaxy colours and ideas the set design developed into a simple structure of balls and hoops moving in a diagonal shape that gives it movement and creates the feeling of distance with the sizes of the objects decreasing as the installation moves upwards. designer

  • Set Designer

Created custom wall murals for the Limassol Carnival Museum, adapting the costume designs into contemporary graphic illustration that enhanced the exhibition's storytelling illustrator designer muralpainting

  • Designer
  • Illustrator

Created custom wall murals for the Limassol Carnival Museum, adapting the costume designs into contemporary graphic illustration that enhanced the exhibition's storytelling illustrator designer muralpainting

  • Designer
  • Illustrator

Created custom wall murals for the Limassol Carnival Museum, adapting the costume designs into contemporary graphic illustration that enhanced the exhibition's storytelling illustrator designer muralpainting

  • Designer
  • Illustrator

Work experience

Set Designer · Skinotechniki LtdSep 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

Designing narrative environments for theatre, museum installations and commercial window displays and festive town installations

Scenic Artist · Skinotechniki LtdSep 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

Painting large-scale paintings and murals for theatre and museums with attention to visual impact and mood.

Set Designer · Skinotechniki LtdSep 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

Designed narrative environments for theatre, museum installations and commercial window displays and festive town installations

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts · University of Kent2012 – 2015
Master in Performance Design · Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, UK2025
Master in Performance Design · Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, UK2015 – 2017

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