Helen Daferera is a visual artist, architect, and interior designer born in Athens, Greece. A graduate of the National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture, she also attended London Guildhall University, School of Art, Architecture, and Design, as well as the open studio on graphic arts and printmaking techniques by the renowned Austrian artist Gunter Damisch in the Fine Arts Academy of Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien). Her artistic practice – drawing, painting, and collage making– has been developing in Athens, Greece, London, U.K., and Vienna, Austria where she also collaborated with Kulturkontakt Austria offering visual arts and architecture workshops. She now lives and works in New York and Paros Island Greece, exhibiting her artwork both in solo and group exhibitions, while also working on book illustrations