Fog Drawing

A young painter presents graphic and pictorial works which reflect the beauty of existence, embody the traditions of ancient art with the idealized image of nature and rewarded the limit of beauty. Paintings of Valeria Yakimenko often tempt with expressiveness and spirituality. She started her artistic practice in her very young age. Later she began to study the subjects of the human body, portrait, nature, birds, flowers, etc. Her creativity is characterized by the wide range of materials, genres and the strategy that is based on a specific idea that at the end of the long process of transformation it is embodied in a work of art. Valeria is an artist who shows the beauty in the most sensual way providing people and nature with colors and shapes. Her paintings give a wonderful view at the new world and become the embodiment of the academic school of old masters. She offers a holistic view of her paintings as an artist caught up in a tense force field between beauty and conceptual importance. The exposition unites iconic works of her early age and a group of new paintings. Her paintings become an amazing process of creating an illusion of the visible world, based on realistic images and the ability to reproduce the truth of reality by recreating sensual forms in which she exists in reality. At the same time the works of high realistic art demonstrate unlimited capabilities of fantasy competing in creative power with nature. Her main task is to give people joy from the world perception, beauty and magic of unpredictable novelty. She has a desire for cultural development and modernization of Ukrainian art and society to remind the humankind about the highest spiritual values.