Expectation Painting

Natalia Klimova — an artist who prefers to paint your soul, not portrait. Main characters of my paintings are women. Girls and their souls, their thoughts and emotions. The illusion of a picture in a picture is a technique I often use. Sometimes in my works I encrypt the plots of legends or old fairy tales. There is a whole universe to feel, to experience and to look at each canvas. And the more you look, the more new meanings you find. It captivates me. I hope it is interesting to my viewers too. However, I never aim at illustrating a legend or a fairy tale. I only try to embody some specific motives that inspires me the most. Sometimes I direct the eyes of my heroines on viewers. I do it on purpose. When you are in a crowd and someone is staring at you, you will definitely feel it and look back. That's how it works with my paintings. You just can’t resist to look directly in their eyes. The eye-contact is important. It’s like a conversation without words. Sometimes, on the contrary, I paint my girls with closed eyes or looking away. In such works I focus on details, on a story. You can never see any vivid emotions on the faces of my heroines. They are hidden, mysterious, focused on themselves. It seems important as in our life we usually experience most intimate things with our eyes closed, immersed in our world where we don’t need to wear masks. Painting makes me work on myself non-stop. It also requires the ability to hear and to feel the world around. Everything that surrounds us can be a pure inspiration, you just have to catch it and reflect it on canvas.