SUNSET IN TUNISIA Painting

Hello, my name is Maria Skakun, I'm an expressionist artist, performer, teacher and art therapist. Participant of international exhibitions. I live and work in France, in Rambouillet. Born in Belarus I have been drawing and studying fine arts since childhood, but since 2017 painting has become my main occupation. For 8 years I have been building a career in the IT and Fashion industry as a designer and art director, after which I decided to leave this activity and allow myself to create as an artist. A free and strong line for me is communication and energetic connection with the world. It helps me and creates pure art. In the creative process I explore the intuitive nature of lines, the unconscious, and experience various psychological states. I work with emotions and feelings. Likewise, through painting, I explore the nature of flesh and sexuality. For me, the process of creating the painting is very important. At first I create an emotional expression on the canvas, during this process I spit out all my emotions and my state, it is like a dialogue with the unconscious. Then I look for the form of this expression - this is a conscious and always interesting process, because at the beginning of the work I trust myself completely and I never know what I will get in the end. I work more often without a sketch - in this style and approach I feel bold and alive. I write abstractions, portraits and nudes. My paintings a characterized by seriality, for a deep immersion in the subject. I work in a mixed author's technique with oil, acrylic, wax pencils, etc. I have 6 solo exhibitions and I am a participant in 13 group exhibitions Collections My works are in private collections in Belarus, France, USA, Poland, Germany, Russia, India, Sri Lanka, Israel, Lithuania.