The Soul Mirror Painting

Architect , artist and fashion designer Katarina Chyrva , she has already lived in six cities in three countries. As an artist, Katarina creates abstract painting patterns, fashion illustrations, and paintings. She transforms fashion design into artwork by moving her abstract paintings onto fabric and creating unique fashion collections. Her silk scarves were presented at Art Nordic Expo in Copenhagen and at a group exhibition in Warsaw. Her artworks were presented at two individual exhibitions, several international group exhibitions in Venice, and Zurich, and several online shows, including Art-Nordic art fair in Copenhagen, 2022. Katarina`s fashion illustrations and paintings have been published in several international fashion and art magazines. In 2021, the Milan-based Hunter Fashion Magazine featured her illustrations on the front and back cover. Katarina constantly experiments with combinations of different media, such as classical painting and digital graphic technologies, which augment the effect of each technique. As a result, she developed her unique artistic style. The abundance of colours and intricate ornaments create a surreal atmosphere of infinity and have a mesmerising impact on the viewer. In her artist’s statement she writes: The purpose of my art is to pursue the Truth. We get closer to the Truth about the world when we first observe it from different points of view, perceive through many senses, and then integrate it in one act of artistic expression. In my artwork, I create an abundance of shape and colour transformations that give the viewer an illusion of infinity. It becomes a reflection of our world, which is immensely diverse and virtually endless. I also constantly look for new media and technologies and mix them with their traditional repertoire. My search for an ideal merge drives me while experimenting with varieties of their combinations. For example, I merge oil or acrylic painting with digital graphic technologies to augment the effects of each technique. As a result, I believe that I am on my way to develop my unique artistic style. My work is an interplay of unconscious flow, which sparks the creative process, and conscious, deliberate perfecting of an image, giving the form to the infinite energy of the flow. Thus, every detail, every colour and shape, and surrounding elements have their meaning and are precisely constructed – like in baroque ornaments.