"Pearl Roses" Painting

ELENA NOVA

Artist | Painting, Acrylic, Dry Pastel, Oil Pastel

ELENA NOVA is a contemporary artist working with painting, color, geometry, and imagery inspired by nature. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between the external world and inner human experience through natural motifs, color combinations, geometric structures, and symbolic imagery.

Nature remains one of the main sources of inspiration in her work. Flowers, plants, birds, and organic forms appear not only as subjects of observation, but also as visual metaphors for life, emotional states, change, and inner transformation.

In recent years, ELENA NOVA’s artistic practice has expanded significantly. In addition to oil painting, she works with acrylic, dry pastel, and oil pastel, exploring the different possibilities of color, texture, and material expression. At the same time, she conducts artistic research into geometry, color, and space, exploring their interaction and their influence on the perception of an image.

A central part of her current practice is the development of original series based on personal experience. In these projects, the artist explores themes of transformation, personal development, identity, and motherhood. Through the language of surrealism, she combines real experiences with symbolic and metaphorical imagery, creating a space in which personal stories acquire a universal dimension.

Her works exist at the intersection of observed reality and the inner world. Real natural forms may be transformed, becoming symbols or elements of imagined spaces. Geometry and organic forms, the natural and the constructed, the real and the imagined enter into dialogue, allowing the artist to explore human experience through visual language.

ELENA NOVA received her artistic education at an art school in Sarapul, Russia (1990–1995), followed by a university degree in Graphic Design in Izhevsk, Russia (1997–2001). Her professional experience includes five years working in a museum as an exhibition designer and six years teaching design.

After returning to painting, the artist gradually developed her own visual language, combining her professional background in design with her interest in nature, color, space, and personal experience.

Today, ELENA NOVA continues to develop several interconnected directions, creating series in which nature, color, geometry, and personal experience become tools for exploring the inner world of the human being.