Loose Thread: Blue Carpet-Inspired Abstract Artwork with Metallic Texture and Nostalgic Ornament, 2026

Victoria Lapshina  

Victoria Lapshina is a contemporary artist based in Ahmedabad, India, where she has lived and worked since 2017. In 2025, she presented two solo exhibitions: Dreamscapes: A Journey Through Light at Amdavad ni Gufa and Mannmit. My Eyes Fell for What I Saw. at Jodhpur Art Gallery, both in Ahmedabad. Her work has also been exhibited at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in New Delhi. Her artworks are held in private collections in India and in the collection of the Centre for Russian Language and Culture at Gujarat University.

Victoria works primarily with acrylic, mixed media, and texture, building surfaces through repeated layers of color and material. Some artworks develop into highly dimensional compositions that push painting beyond a conventional flat surface.

Color is the starting point of her practice and its main emotional language. Her visual vocabulary has developed between two contrasting environments: the quieter, muted atmosphere she associates with her Russian background and the saturated color, rhythm, and intensity of life in India. Rather than illustrating either culture, Lapshina allows this tension to emerge through color, texture, movement, and space.

Her process is intuitive and exploratory. Instead of beginning with a predetermined image, she allows the physical behavior of color and material to direct the painting, treating each work as an act of discovery and a space for immediate emotional connection.