Forest Bathing. Shinrin Yoku. landscape painting, 2024

Momalyu Liubov Kriuchkova  

Liubov Kriuchkova, aka Momalyu, is an interdisciplinary artist based in Slovenia, Europe, specializing in floral painting and pattern design.

Liubov was born in Siberia and has been painting ever since she was a young child. She has used painting to express her feelings and emotions. She gained her first significant clientele when she painted interior design projects for her clients. Then, after moving to Thailand in 2015, she gave everything up to pursue a professional career in arts. The fragrant nature of Asia gave her works and paintings an air of warmth and sunlight. She is currently living and working as an artist in Slovenia, and her art focuses on the relationship between nature and humanity. In addition to collaborating with several companies to create original prints and patterns for textiles and wallpaper, she is working on a new series of paintings. These days, she mostly paints scenes from nature, a theme that permeates her artistic and commercial endeavors.

Artist Statement :

"Love (translate Liubov) is who I am. That's my name, and that's how I investigate and reinterpret my world. In today's fast-paced world, I greatly desire to keep my inner equilibrium and shine a light on other people. Through contemplation of the beauty of nature and connection with it, my art serves as a means of reestablishing a connection with my true beginning and highlighting all that is good and good in myself and others.

The Impressionists' use of a solar palette and their capacity to capture the fleeting moment of the present speak to me in this way.

"Know yourself - and you know the world," the ancient sages said, and these are not just words to me. My creativity is an extension of my worldview and a means of self-discovery. I express my sense of oneness with nature on canvases using oil paints that appear noble and deep to me. Their natural colors - earthen - represent support, and green - the energy of growth, development, and harmony. According to Galen, "Nature is the highest wisdom embodied."

Solo exhibitions :

2024 «Unity with Nature,» gallery Rettori Tribbio, Triest, Italy (upcoming)

2023 «Spirit Herbals,» Library Medvode, Ljubljana, Slovenija

2022 «Tropical Nature,» Library Medvode, Ljubljana, Slovenija

2022 «Graceful Vegetables,» Library Medvode, Ljubljana, Slovenija

2022 «Tropical Nature», Commercial Venue, Ljubljana, Slovenija

Other projects :

2024 ArtExpo Trieste, Italy (upcoming)

2023 ArtExpo Ljubljana, Slovenia

2023 Slovanský dům «Modrákohout», Prague

2022 Flash Benefit Show, Square Foot Show, Canada

2022 Square Foot Show "In Bloom," group exhibition, Canada

2016 «View from the window of the «Molchanovka» group exhibition, Irkutsk, Russia