"In the orange sun" Painting

Irina Petrova is a contemporary artist whose practice explores corporeality, memory, perception, and the ways we experience the world through the body.
Irina has a professional background in Fine Arts and Art Therapy. Her experience in art education and teaching is an important part of her connection with people and her understanding of art as a space for dialogue and shared experience.
Working between figuration and abstraction, Petrova examines the relationship between inner experience and the world around us. Her work is informed by philosophy, cultural studies, personal experience, memory, and embodied perception. These different layers come together through the process of painting, where thought, physical presence, and material continuously influence one another.
Travel is an integral part of her practice. Living and working between different places allows Petrova to explore how environment, memory, and inner states shape one another. Nature is a recurring source of inspiration, though her work is not concerned with landscape as a genre, but with the emotional and psychological experience of encountering a place.
Petrova works primarily with oil and acrylic, as well as oil pastel and mixed media.