Yanka Liyu

Hello, I am a self-taught artist.
I am fascinated by studying color, shape, line, and strength of contrast and observing their symbiosis and how they interact with our perception. I like to interact with simple visual tools in my works - color, shape, line, contrast, and how their combination captures and excites the eye or, on the contrary, calms it.
I love nature, I love being surrounded by nature. I look for my inspiration in nature, how to combine colors, how they exist in their natural forms of a leaf or a flower, and how the human eye wanders looking at the form, then the color, then the flower itself as a whole.
I am interested in feeling myself in my work - moments of a combination of research and my intuition, that symbiosis when, on the one hand, color is a conscious decision, and on the other, when I allow the picture to behave as if I feel the current.
I enjoy playing with colors, shapes, and lines, I'm interested in finding combinations of them that you want to look at and that don't burden the viewer. Therefore, I prefer the image of flowers - they are interesting, playful, and have a complex shape and a complex color, but our consciousness often perceives them in a super simplified way, something clumsy and yellow, f...