Red autumn sunset Painting

Every time I see a grand sunset, a special state of being attached to something beyond appears, when it seems that just still a little and an insight will come, some great mystery will open... I tried to convey this feeling with the help of aniline dyes on natural silk. This artwork is made in the non-traditional technique of cold batik. About me: I was born in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, a little country in the Eastern Europe, where I live and work and at present. My father worked as an agronomist in the vicinity of Chisinau, and every year in my childhood I spent the whole spring, summer and autumn in the gardens, fields and vineyards watching the life of plants and flowers. I really liked it. Sometimes it seemed to me that they all understand and even try to talk with me. Such I began to get acquainted with the World Soul (Anima Mundy). But I did not become a scientist-botanic, but an artist-botanic. In 80'th I was graduated from art - decoration department of the Moldavian State Art College, named after I.E.Repin. After the college I started working as an artist on textile in the Union of popular crafts "Aurica". At the same time I got carried away by cold batik. I painted fabrics and decorative panels in the batik art technique. Later I improved in this technique by painting the women's clothes and accessories, during the cooperation with the Chisinau Fashion House. Over time, I began to create a purely picturesque artworks in cold batik (mainly floral still lifes and landscapes). Beginning at some point, I realized that I lacked the expressive means of the technical elements of the classic cold batik (such as "stock", "filling", etc.). For overcome this limitation, I began to additionally use the elements of the free painting in my artwork. So gradually I came to my own, individual synthetic technique, which is not typical for the classical batik and is closer to the watercolor technique in execution. It means that my paintings I make on natural silk by liquid (water soluble) aniline dyes for fabrics. This requires the same accuracy of the brushstroke as in the art-technique of watercolor: a single inaccurate movement by a brush - and an almost finished picture will have to be washed off completely. This also requires a delicate control onto the rates of spreading and drying of the liquid dye. After the pattern is ready, it is subjected to a steam treatment and becomes indelible by water. Dried picture stretched on hard cardboard or stretcher (like for canvas). As for my artistic concept (artistic style), then for myself, I define it just as I feel everything around me. I define it as a kind of realistic panpsychism - an artistic realization of the idea of the universal animated Nature. My paintings bought by collectors from USA, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland, Romanie, Israel and Japan.