As an artist, I am exploring how modern people’s emotions occur and how one can influence them. My focus is on the phenomenon when certain emotions and feelings make people perceive the time, their sensations, and thoughts in a new way. I also seek to understand the circle of control over people’s life recreating circumstances in which any concerns and emotional insecurities may be transformed into positive outcomes. This brings me to the idea that people can change their mental state even if they are having information overload and are permanently stressed.
My experience of various life events helps me to create abstract pieces using a special technique of mindful meditative drawing. Abstract art is free of any basis in observed reality and focuses on our inner state and perceptions of the present. At the same time working with such a complex and dense material as epoxy resin can be challenging. It requires a certain skill of letting go of control and allowing organic interactions of the materials.
To some extent, the result is independent of me. In other words, creating the drawing should correspond to the effect made on the viewer. Thus, each drawing symbolises a slow and balanced living that encourages us to find positive emotions in our fast-paced world.
From 2011 to the present day, my life has been filled with a series of impressive trips to the countries of Asia, Africa, Europe and the West, with visits to culturally significant places in world history, as well as major art events, which helped me to form an artistic vision. An important element on the path of development was a huge amount of communication with people from different countries and cultures who shared their view of the world in response to my openness and curiosity.
My style of expression was greatly influenced by the profession of a cabaret dancer in Russia (2009-2014), where light, music and mood developed in me the romance of perceiving nightlife.
In 2019, I am learning the technique of painting with epoxy resin. For 5 years I have been studying the behavior of the material and experimenting.
Morning Bliss #4, Acrylic, gold and bronze pigment, epoxy resin on a wooden panel, 90 x 80 cm
Breath of the muse, Acrylic, textured paste, epoxy resin on a wooden panel, 80 x 80 cm
Morning Bliss #3, Acrylic, gold and bronze pigment, epoxy resin on a wooden panel, 90 x 80 cm
It all starts with two, Acrylic and epoxy resin on wooden panel, 100 cm diameter
The ultimate pleasure, Acrylic and epoxy resin on a wooden panel, 78 x 90 cm