Engraving is the main way in which Fotis Varthis creates his artworks, looking for the possibilities of the material and engraving with various techniques. Utilizing woodcut, the first method of engraving and transmitting the image through multiple copies, he tries to incorporate it into the modern era through the themes themselves and also by combining new media.
The themes are often reinforced by the use of the Byzantine design in order to combine the transcendent and the timeless with "here" and "now". At the heart of Fotis Varthis' interest is the human state as an internally experienced condition with its full range of emotions. In an effort to create an artistic language capable of communicating with speech and emotion, he recalls elements from archaic art to folk painting as well as from artists who have incorporated similar stimuli into their works.
Starting a series of projects, in addition to their visual arts, he looks for ways in which they can be combined with other arts to create a final result. Literature in particular, as an art that has been associated with engraving for centuries through typography, often leads Fotis Varthis to seek collaboration with artists who serve this genre.