This edition presents the painting work of Spyros Papagiannopoulos. Coming from a family of architects and painters, Papagiannopoulos was born and raised in Athens, but chose to live on Aegean islands: Anafi, Paros, Antiparos, Crete. The sea, painting, and fishing boats were the great passions of his life.

The majority of his work is found in murals in taverns, bars, shops, or homes. As a self-taught painter, he avoided any recent influence of the trend, adopting a timeless, folk-like, unconventional style. Technical perfection and craftsmanship were not his priority – not even a goal of his. While he possessed a technically sound expression and an accurate, concise, and expressive drawing, he was not interested in transferring and developing them in his monumental painting.

On the contrary, he adopted a folk-like expressive style and infused it with his personal manner to tell his stories. As Thanasis Moutsopoulos notes, Spyros Papagiannopoulos's painting style "could be described as a mix of folk painting with some unspecified contemporary elements, rich in details, historical information, and minor references."

These ‘unspecified elements’ may be memories from his studies of painting, perhaps particularly of surrealism, possibly De Chirico, and maybe even a knowledge of French comics. In other words, Papagiannopoulos was not exactly “folk,” but rather a well-read young man who explored the folk culture of his country while simultaneously seeking his personal expressive path.