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Long Hibernation (Fall, 2008) |
 My life turned to be a bit dormant. My move to another city and a job drained my precious time for my art. It looks like I restrained myself from creativity. Although, it is not as sad as it is.
My apologies for my not updating the web site for a while, as I’ve been busy. I am not dead! Besides, I, as it happens, share more time to painting than to photoshoping. Although I made some good-looking photo manipulated pictures.
Even my state has been kinda slow and drowsy, I thought, what if this span of time is a sort of a theme for my gallery – being asleep, as if it is wrapping you up, blurry and hazy. I allowed myself to make a stress on fabric structure which has been used more, less photoshoping, which is hard to get rid of its effects, and more authentic photograph.
At the given moment I am painting pictures for the exhibition which, I believe, will eventually take place somehow and somewhere. So, I ask all my friends and guests, who check my site from time to time, please go on visiting my “web-nest” and read the updates about the works I created.
 I tell myself to rise and shine; there are a lot to do! I stretch and say to the Lord the words of thanks for the new day and bless me with inspiration and don’t let me be gripped in the chores of this mundane life, but to create and live for the sake of goodness and art. As always I wake myself up from a long winter hibernation which entangled me and I give you my new gallery. |
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Art Still Lingers (Spring, 2008) |
 Memories fade, but art lingers. It has been bad for me to leave what I used to have – brushes, a canvas, oil, and pure imagination, so here’s a new gallery put together with the sincere desire to paint, create, and make beauty. Art still lingers…
It took me a considerable amount of time to develop the concept for this gallery. My apologies for keeping silent for some time. As we enter spring, here’s a gallery I created under the influence of avant-garde art.
 These works incorporate, in a primitive form, some of the old techniques of icon-making. Lots of my paintings are drawn on wooden boards covered with cloth, coated under a chalk-emulsion and glue. I used tempera and oil paints. It is a labor-intensive process, but the end justifies the means: All the pictures turn weighty – in both a physical and an emotional sense.
The themes for this gallery come from different sources-- childhood, motherhood, heroes, and victims of human mistakes. I want every picture to tell its own story. The canvas is asking to be touched, so that you may feel the emotions of the characters. Don’t use traditional canons to judge the faces of the characters: These are not portraits of human beings, but the embodiment of emotions in an image. Thinks of it as a pagan icon in remembrance all the good that is worth commemorate, honor and remember. We know that memories fade, but art still lingers… for you.
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