"Solstice" Painting

Evgenia Makarova’s work explores the tension between fluidity and control, between the openness of colour and the impulse to interrupt, mark, or contain it. She builds paintings through layers of colour, gesture, washes, and repeated interventions. Soft atmospheric fields are often disrupted by lines, marks, loops, grids, or structural fragments that appear to hold the image together while also unsettling it. These elements do not resolve the composition; they create a sense of pressure, movement, and instability. Makarova is interested in the point at which a painting begins to resist order. Colour shifts, bleeds, and accumulates, while drawn or sprayed gestures act as traces of decision, correction, or disturbance. Rather than constructing a closed visual system, she approaches painting as a place where opposing forces remain active: control and release, clarity and collapse, structure and atmosphere. The final image is not a conclusion, but a suspended state — something still forming, breaking, or changing.