Petros Roukoutakis was born in 1953 in Chania of Crete (Greece). He studied painting at Doxiadis School of Athens. He continued studies in the Academy of Arts of Rome (1974-1977) having Franco Gentily as a teacher.
At the age of twenty eight he became blind, ever since then he consecrates himself to the art of sculpture. Since 1982 he has been teaching the blind children at the KEAT school (public elementary school for blind children) in Kalithea, Athens. In 1991 he also established the sculpture workshop for the Greek Lighthouse for blind people.
He has organized  and participated in many personal and group exhibitions and for his sculpture and instructive work in Art and Culture he has been awarded by the Academy of Greece (1994).

VIDEO: See the artist at his workshop (click here)