Olga Kolesnik

I am not an artist of one painting style. I like to experiment and explore the art landscape. This is probably definitely complicating my reputation as an artist in gallerists’ eyes, but attracts many different people who look for creative diversity, flexibility and fluidity within one artist. I do not want to die wondering how my art would look like if I were an abstract expressionist. I want to try it, do it, celebrate life as I see it and express myself in more ways than just one.

While always staying true to my favourite subjects such as floral still life, birds, female portraits and occasional landscapes, I utilize elements of a few styles to add interest and a contemporary twist to a painting to create something original and exciting.

In my figurative artworks, I often fill nearly realistic shapes with emotions of certain chosen colours. I also like the intuitiveness and freedom abstract art offers and adore both the pure forms , ‘a form filtered to its essentials’ (Matisse), and conciseness of minimalism and maximalism of colourful expressionist abstracts.

I began to draw and paint when I was a child and finished high school with a formal qualification and certificate allowing me to work as a Graphic Design artist. But it...

2021 The Other Art Fair, Sydney - 18-21 March
2021 POWHF, Randwick - Solo exhibition

2020 The Other Art Fair, Sydney - 10-13 September
2019 Bluethumb - Staff-Pick Collection
2019 Bluethumb - Curated Collection-Stunning Still Life
2019 Bluethumb - Curated Collection-The Naive
2019 Art Gallery Kurnell - Featured Artist Exhibitions
2019 Ryazanoff Gallery/Melbourne -Group Exhibitions
2019 Bluethumb -Curated Collection-Feathered and Furry Friends

2018 Bluethumb - Curated Exhibition
2018 Art Gallery Kurnell - Featured Artist
2018 Ryazanoff Gallery/Melbourne -Group Exhibitions
2018 Artshine Gallery - Group and Solo Exhibitions

2017 Bluethumb - Featured Artist
2017 Hunters Hill Exhibition-Finalist
2017 Artshine Gallery - Group Exhibitions
2017 Arden (Waterbrook) Exhibition - Group Exhibition

2016 Sutherland Library/ Friends of Hazelhurst-Solo
2016 The Makery on Oxford - Solo Exhibition
2016 Art Gallery Kurnell - Featured Artist