Mediterranean in Good Weather, 1996

Zoumboulakis studied painting, stage set design, advertising, and decorative arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, while after he had finished his training, he studied vernacular and Byzantine art in various regions of Greece, on a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation. In combining in his painting realistic and surrealistic features, and sometimes influences from his work on stage sets, as to the way in which interiors and exteriors are combined, Zoumboulakis has striven to restore the profound relation between man and his environment, his history, and contemporary life. In the 1980s, landscape expressed a new line of thought on the bounds of space, time, nature, and the universe which resulted in his compositions extending into eternity, as he created pictures which can be seen as autonomous, but at the same time as forming a part of a 'whole', the indefinite shape of which requires of the beholder that s/he should use his/her imagination in order to be brought to the infinite.