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My name is Nadezhda, and I was born in Moscow. I currently live in Sevastopol.
I am 37 years old, and I have dedicated most of my conscious life to creating paintings.
I started drawing at the age of 4 and have been continuously improving my skills in
drawing and painting ever since!
A theme of calmness and grace runs like a red thread through my works.
The message of my art is that by looking at it, hanging it in your home, a person
will gain a piece of that very calmness.
At a time when we are overwhelmed by noise, living at high speeds, consuming
all information superficially, and not being present in the moment, this piece of painting
grounds you, brings you back to your senses. It allows you to exhale and feel yourself in silence, in
childhood.
I strive for pure and harmonious shades so that the wandering gaze
of the viewer slows down and rests.
I mostly work in a realistic manner, adding decorative, sausage-like elements to my works.
For this, I most often use classical oil painting and watercolor.
I also tenderly love ink and pen graphics and treat the creation of paintings in
this technique with great care.
The main themes of my creativity:
- The everyday life of a person and their psychological state.
The modern world has accelerated. People have become more self-centered and at the same time
have lost the ability to see themselves clearly. The pace of life increases, leaving less and less
time to stop, look carefully, and honestly answer yourself:
“What am I doing right now?”, “Where am I right now?”, “Who am I right now?”.
In my paintings, I want to capture those moments where a person is connected with themselves and with
the small world that belongs only to them and to which they belong entirely.
In constant busyness and activity, people in big cities forget what it is like
to stop, relax, and contemplate. Not just for a few seconds to then jump back
into the race, but to make it their everyday practice. The everyday life of an ordinary
person, with small joys, simple and usual, is what I want to bring to the
foreground, to make visible. The main idea is that you don’t need to be special to
be happy. It’s not necessary to do something extraordinary to live a good
life and leave a kind memory. Maintaining inner peace, supporting
yourself, inner support, and quiet grace — this is what I strive for in my
life and what I want to show people. That happiness is possible in different ways.
- The life of old houses and things.
What makes us say about something that it has a “soul”? Why don’t new things hold the same value for us as those that have been kept in the family for decades? Why do we pass them down from generation to generation?
I am interested in the process of transition from one state to another — when this new thing
becomes tenderly cherished and seemingly alive for a person? When a faceless house
turns into a whole image, with a face, character, and voice? Old things have
a hidden beauty. It can only be seen when you slow down, when you contemplate without
a mental tornado in your head. You can’t see it on the run. The series of paintings “From the Life
of an Old House” invites the viewer to slow down and look around. To see
the signs of the passage of time, the traces of time on familiar surrounding things. To see
how they have changed, how they have become different. And to see the beauty in this, to fall in love
with simple, uncrafted things — the cobweb of cracks on a once-painted door,
moss on the corner of a wall, sunburnt tiles on the roof, an overgrown vineyard, and pink
bushes that haven’t been trimmed for a long time.