My artwork is a fusion of creative energy and color harmony.

 Why Abstract Art?

 When I was a little girl, I enjoyed playing with a kaleidoscope with its rainbow of colors and shapes and viewing unusual bright slides. This kaleidoscope game continues to this day. I take photos of stained glass and use digital techniques to create fantastic pictures. For me, painting or taking photos of a flower, a house or a person never felt very creative. It was an exercise of a technical skill. I would get so caught up in getting it “right” that any imagination and creativity went out the door. I learnt my technical skills at the Moscow School of Watercolor and the Russian Academy of Photography but my abilities did not exactly “feed” my soul.

 I searched for a challenge; I wanted to use color and shape to create a certain mood and feeling. I discovered abstract art and searched for its connection with painting and photography. Once I let go of the idea that everything had to be perfect and look like a physical object, my soul opened up. My art thrived with bright colors and a variety of shapes, just like my old ”kaleidoscope”.

 Abstract artist views the world very differently than an impressionist or a realist. Abstract artist doesn’t look at objects and embody them into pictures; instead, he pulls from the inside and brings out colors and shapes into imaginary forms. His brain picks things from his soul that should be a picture. He notices things that are not visible to a lot of people.

 Color…shape…shadow…texture…these are the things that speak to us.

 There is a language I know very well. I speak abstract.