Olena Romashkina

The path of my creativity was guided by my grandmother who never could draw.
Since I was a little girl I was an extremely whiny child. I lived just with my grandma and she always looked for all the possible methods to calm me down.
And one day she sat down and drew a little man, just circles and sticks. I was really amazed how one of such absolutely scattered elements formed a little man. Grandma never knew how to draw but from that day I started.
And I practically stopped whining.

My art is not about pre-thought things, it's more intuitive and emotional. I make it up as I go along as people who sing and select words on the go, all about what they see around them. I re-sing with paints and strokes in my own way.
I rarely explain what is depicted in the picture as it speaks to the viewer by itself.
I am a very introverted artist. I often go into some kind of fractality, I like to go deeper and deeper into the lines, through the lines.
This is my handwriting and my recognition.

I am not trying to convey the authenticity of things. Only a small detail. It's like Kurt Vonnegut and his magical realism where the whole Universe can hold just on a small piece.

The light and the shadow around me play an important role in my ...

Ukrainian Academy of Printing (UAD).

Joint exhibition *Bückeburg en plein air * 2022 Germany www.bbpleinair.de
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Exhibition * Sundust *
Center For Contemporary Art 2022 Slovenia

Personal exhibition * Blue and more *
Hundertwasser Bahnhof Uelzen 2021 Germany

• Kunstpreis Worpswede 2017 | AUTO | MACHT | MOBILITAT | Einbeck, 2017, Germany.

• International exhibition dedicated to AN Kuindzhi | 2017 | ArtLux Arts Center Mariupol | Ukraine.

• All-Ukrainian exhibition dedicated to the artist's day, exhibition hall in the Central House of Artists of the National Union of Artists | 2017, Kiev, Ukraine.

• Third All-Ukrainian Triennial of Abstract Painting ART-AKT, 2017, center of culture "Vernissage" | Chernivtsi | Ukraine.

• All-Ukrainian art exhibition dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, an exhibition hall in the Central House of Artists of the National Union of Artists | 2016 | Kiev | Ukraine.

• Personal exhibition "Free sensations" | 2016 | Italian courtyard | Lviv | Ukraine.