Marina Demaris

I am a visual artist whose path has been shaped by transformation, resilience, and continuous reinvention. For many years, I worked with hot enamel on copper — a rare, demanding technique that deeply influenced my sensitivity to color, detail, and depth. When I moved to France without the equipment needed to continue this practice, a new chapter opened, and I turned fully toward painting on canvas.
Today, my work explores the dialogue between graphics and texture, abstraction and defined contours, and vivid colors and deep shadows. I am drawn to contrasts and to the search for balance between spontaneity and intention — a creative tension that often feels like walking a tightrope. Through layered surfaces, reliefs, brushstrokes, pastels, and black graphic lines, I seek to express emotion, inner states, and the subtle stories that emerge from intuition.
Recurring motifs in my practice include human figures, nature, landscapes, and cats, as well as playful explorations of texture. I am inspired by the forms, rhythms, and tactile qualities of the natural world, while preserving my own visual language — a blend of depth, graphic structure, and materiality.
Alongside my studio practice, I have completed numerous mural and decorative pai...

From 1990 to 1994 studied at the Art School.

From 1994 to 1995 studied at the studio of the artist Vitaly Nepogodin.

1995-2000 - College of Art and Industry, specialty - master of artistic painting, graduated with honors

2000-2005 Higher School of Design at the Academy of Architecture. Specialty - designer

2005-2008 - studied the Hot Enamel technique in the studios of Nikolai Vdovkin and Olga Polshina

Exhibitions
1999 – First Design Festival, Caucasian Mineral Waters, Zheleznovodsk, Russia
2001–2015 – Participation in International Design Festivals
2001–2006 – International Hot Enamel Symposia; Final Exhibition at the Pushkin Gallery, Caucasus
2002 – Exhibition “Orthodox Icon”, Caucasus
2004 – Self-Portrait Exhibition “Alone with the Canvas”, project “Russia at the Turn of the Millennium”
2004 – Exhibition of Women Artists of the North Caucasus, project “Between Worlds: The Creative Space of Caucasian Women Between Tradition and Civilization”
2006 – Christmas Exhibition, Stavropol
2006 – Exhibition of the Guild of Enamel Artists of Southern Russia
2008 – Exhibition “Still Life”, Caucasus
2010 – Academic Exhibition of Artists from Southern Russia, Stavropol
2011 – Solo Exhibition “A Woman’s Gaze”, Caucasus
2011 – Citywide Exhibition “Pyatigorsk Today and Tomorrow”
2012 – Exhibition of Young Artists of Southern Russia, Essentuki
2012 – Solo Exhibitions in Kotor and Budva, Montenegro
2013 – Participant, 28th Chelsea International Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York, USA
2013 – Solo Exhibition “Hot Enamel. Waiting”, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014–2015 – Solo Exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic
2017 – First Prize, International Creative P...