Leipzig Photograph

Darya Matejuk was born in Minsk in 1987. She grew up in the atmosphere of art and creativity. Her today's art is very often intuitive: surrealist in the attitude and Gothic in form. This intuition has been formed during many years of art classes taken as a child and as a student of folk art. She admits special influence of music on what she does today. Since early childhood her elder brother - a composer and vocalist - used to take her to his music rehearsals and concerts. No wonder Darya has a music attitude to her drawings and photography. Needless to say, she plays piano and guitar. Some of her favorite musicians are Antonio Vivaldi, Ludwig van Bethoven, Toshio Masuda, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simon, Iogan Sebastian Bach. In her artistic practice Darya has been influenced by art of Mikolajus Ciurlionis and his ability to combine music and painting. Aubrey Beardsley taught her to emphasize the grotesque. M.C. Escher with his mathematically inspired woodcuts inspires her geometric photography. Drawing and photography are the techniques Darya uses. The rhythm of lines is what attracts in her art first of all. She is very pure in color, limiting it mostly to black and white, sometimes adding spots of primary colors. Often use drawing techniques: zentangle, zenart, point-to-point. Darya's drawings are decorative and the process of making them reminds that of creating mandalas. Yet they all are figurative. The stylized images of animals is an eternal theme and dates back to the first cave drawings. Her series of birds is amazing in its beauty. Main material Darya uses in her drawings are pencils, ink and gel pen, markers, ink, gouache and watercolors. She is a professional web and graphic designer.