Sunflowers under the Ukrainian Sky, 2023

Valeria Radzievska  

Artist Statement:

I paint the most perfect forms created by nature - the sea element, people, plants. Everything in which there is primal wildness, freedom, and therefore beauty. I love the play of the sun on human face, flower petals and water. I like to look for my own memories on unfamiliar streets or forest roads. Splashes of paint on canvas bring me back to that reality.

Portrait is a special sphere. The most important are eyes for me. Too alive, too talkative.

I would call my art aesthetic. There is an important health effect in this. Forms around are no less deep then our subconscious. They give some code a harmonious organization. Tuning in to this algorithm we can bring harmony back into our inner world.

I paint on canvas with oil using both a single layer alla prima method and multi-layered long-term method.

For some paintings I want to give a subtle and almost photographic reproduction of shapes and colors with a thin brush and finger tips to create soft color transitions in one. Others, "loud", I paint with a wide pasty brush or palette knife strokes: this way I sculpt the texture.

Painting has two main aims. It's a way to share with the world pure living energy, electric rays of light and color. And it is meditation, the key to own depths and to the essence of things.

Education:

Self-taught

I have been working with the words for a long time. I studied literature and worked as a journalist. Until I allowed myself to express feelings and outlook using paints.

In April 2015 I took a piece of paper and a few pieces of dry pastels and painted clouds. They hadn't been given rest to my mind for a few weeks: it was a spring "exodus" of clouds from the sky. They moved like a great winter blanket. And they were shined by the sun.

Since then I've been painting on canvas with oil paints. For me it is a process of deep communication with myself and the world.

I studied the art of oil painting privately with Ukrainian artists whose art inspired me to study the form and color.

I have created more than one hundred oil paintings. Some of them are in private collections in Ukraine, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and the USA.

Exhibitions:

2021
The Art of Portrait / Stara Uman Gallery, Nebesnoji Sotni str., 31 - Uman, Ukraine
2021
Solo Ballet Exhibition / October Palace - Kyiv, Ukraine
2021
Summer in Rainbow Colors / Stara Uman Gallery, Nebesnoji Sotni str., 31 - Uman, Ukraine
2021
Stara Uman Gallery Exhinition / Stara Uman Gallery, Nebesnoji Sotni str., 31 - Uman, Ukraine
2020
Solo Sofa Hub Exhibition / ?reative Space Sofa Hub, Dzherelna str., 1 - Uman, Ukraine

Artistic Influences:

Geroyiv Dnipra str., 9,
apt. 80

Tags:

Realism oil painting, impressionism painting, landscape painting, portrait painting, interior painting, modern art.