Lino Herakles Tesco is an architect and artist, born in 1981 in Athens, Greece. His origins are from Ikaria a Northeast Aegean island. He finished high school in Piraeus, Greece, in the field of Applied Arts. He moved to England at the age of 18 where he studied at the University of Plymouth. In 2002 he received the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture. In 2003 he moved back to Greece, at the city of Volos, where he studied and received his Diploma in Architecture from the University of Thessaly. Since 2008 he is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and has an office and art workshop at Piraeus.

   Lino Tesco’s main passion is painting. Since 1996 focuses in mixed-media arts with a wide range of topics like portraits, landscapes and seascapes. His distinctive style is based on a simplistic line with bold features. There is a reference to the ancient Greek ‘’meandros’’, a bold outline that progresses in a 'random' expansion. This line advances naturally, creating shapes, areas and volumes.