Halepas: The Sculptor of Tinos

by Nike Azoros

Halepas, The Sculptor of Tinos from best-selling author Nike Azoros.

Yiannouli Halepas was as famous for his tragic life as for his extraordinary artistic talent. Born on the Greek island of Tinos into a family of renowned marble masons, Yiannouli was expected to join the family business.

His fierce, autocratic mother didn’t want him to have anything to do with the marble business. She considered him too good for a life of dust and hammers.

His despotic, demanding father had full expectation that he would and kept him busy carving church altars and tombstones.

Neither parent wanted him to follow his artistic bliss, sculpting. They would do almost anything to keep him from sculpting, even if meant having him locked up.

Halepas, The Sculptor of Tinos goes beyond being a story about a tortured artist but of when creativity is expressed, it unleashes the healing power of Art.

285 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 14, 2024