I am very fond of hunting greyhounds.
I am fascinated by the theme of speed and plasticity of a graceful dog's body while running.      This is how I created the series of works ‘Tsar's Hunt’, which I did with dry pastel. It is a soft material, but to create the effect of movement, its gustiness and passion, I deliberately made sharp strokes. After all, a line drawn on a piece of paper or canvas activates the same neurons in the brain that are responsible for movement similar to the movement that produced the line.

A royal hunt.

"Beautiful Roses" is a collection of my pastel crayon paintings. I am in love with these royal flowers. I paint them often and with great pleasure.
My paintings are made with crayons of the best world brands - Sennelier Soft Pastels, Schmincke, Rembrandt.
Paintings made with pastel crayons never lose their colour, unlike other materials.

Beautiful roses

Venice. The city on the water. The city of fairy tales and dreams. The city where you want to come back and roam the streets and canals with bridges, drive Gondor under the quiet song of the gondolier. The enthusiasm of what was seen in Venice remains for life and as an obsession lives in memory, create new images that begin to live on the canvas. There is the concept in metaphysics that all images and characters, which are living in legends, epics and thoughts of the humanity, exist in the information field of our planet. That is why the creators—writers and artists are responsible for that, what they create in their imagination.


Venice

Black Lives Matter

Through this metaphor, the artist celebrates silence, which has the potential to keep the pure essence of feelings and thoughts of loving people.

 words don’t express ourselves as well as our feelings and emotions. The feelings are our soul's language. Emotional support is one of the big benefits of having relationships.
In the development of romantic relationships, words aren’t always needed. Sometimes the power of silence creates a comfortable atmosphere. It uses nonverbal language to share human thoughts and feelings. To experience a new depth of feelings you may put the seal of silence on the lips, stain them with other meanings.


Be Quiet as a Fish

I am an artist and teacher. I love working with children and of course drawing them. My paintings were inspired  love to watch them and their childlike spontaneity in communication and perception of the world. Each child is already a person with his own character and habits. In my graphic paintings, I paint not only a portrait, but also an entourage, something characteristic only of this child.

Children's portraits

My paintings were inspired by iconic Hungarian grey bulls and cows, which I watched during my summer vacation at Lake Balaton in Hungary. During my few visits to this place, I was impressed by the beautiful landscapes and comfortable atmosphere of the largest freshwater body in Central Europe. 
Gorgeous bulls look differently in the sun or the shades: the silver-gray bull in shadow has a blue hue, similar to the lake's water surface. I created acrylic paintings, which are allegorically describing the life of a patriarchal family with a clear hierarchical structure. All members of the family obey the head of the family, females are docile and give birth to children, and children are spontaneous, playful, and disobedient.

Summer experiences


For thousands of years, the role of woman in society was limited and the attractiveness of women's body was seen as an object that exists to satisfy men pleasure. In the male world, the unconscious perception of a man influenced female self recognition and self-esteem. This "male gaze" for women's nature and role in society has existed for too long. Nowadays there has appeared a "women's view" that is the female interpretation of the surrounded environment created by men.Currently, society is going through the process of forming the "women's view». I reflect this in my artworks, by considering ancient mythology as a means of knowing the divine feminine principle. 

Svetlana Catif-Filonova