Albina Akritas is a painter by her very nature. She always thinks of painting in whatever technique - tempera, oil, collage, drawing - no matter how she works, no matter what color scheme - restrained monochrome, unrestrained color or black and white she does not develop. "It often occurs to me that the word "painting" originally had a slightly different meaning than it does now. It did not indicate the technique, did not say that the work was made with oil or tempera paints using a brush on canvas or cardboard. No, the word meant living writing, it was living...."