Irina Oshley

Dreams inspire most of my creative work. In my view, dreams are of great value because they store a large number of ideas, stories and characters. I think also that some dreams bring a message which can be important to someone. So I want to share them with other people.
In my artworks I try to find the optimal balance between drawing and painting. I am fascinated by the black and white free-line-drawing which is very lightweight and able to perfectly convey any character. In its turn the color is important to express the general mood or to put accents. After studying in art academies, I continue to experiment and to improve this technique on paper and on canvas using ink and chalk crayons for drawing.

- Art Academy of Latvia, department of painting (MA);
- Venice Art Academy (Venice, Italy), two years in painting department with European scholarship;
- Three-months scholarship granted by Institute for Art and Restoration (Florence, Italy).

- Group and personal exhibitions in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Italy, France and Austria;
- Art fair "Berliner Liste", Berlin, Germany.
- Symposiums and workshops (Lithuania, Society of Marianne Werefkin; Italy, Institute for Art and Restoration);

- My painting joined private collections in Latvia, Austria, France and Morocco. In 2016 my painting "The Ball" joined the collections of the contemporary art center "Mark Rothko Art Center" (Latvia).