The only female in a family of eight children, Amalia found self- expression through art at an early age. As she grew, she developed her self-expression in many areas, playing several musical instruments, writing poetry, becoming a life-long scholar of the ancient world as well as a counselling psychotherapist specializing in methods of psychotherapy involving visual expression/imagery, which had by this time become her own dominant form of artistic expression. At an exhibit, however, Amalia likes to create an expressive environment by combining sound and even movement with her visual works whenever possible, simultaneously symbolizing and concretizing the notion of ever-encircling, ever-evolving, ever-expanding creation.

A born-and-bred New Yorker, Amalia now divides her time between Nicosia and Northern California. She is only just beginning to show her work in Cyprus. She works largely in inks, soft pastels, and acrylics, but also indulges in acrylics and oils. She also likes to incorporate 3-dimensional objects (e.g. tree branches) into her works and use non-traditional methods (e.g. transferring paint onto canvas via the net of an onion bag) of medium application.