Helen was born in year 1970. Since her first art attempts in 6 years when she drew landscapes she could see through the window she dreamed to be a great artist. When she attended school, she felt really bored during all the classes except of art ones. One of the main things on her table was a sketchbook which she filled in with small sketches of everything what surrounded her. Teachers tried to do something with this but then just reconciled.
Helen`s parents supported her and hired personal teacher of arts to help her with preparations to the entering examination to the Art Lyceum in Kyiv. All the days round she studied academic painting, but she new that her goal was different.
Art influence
She was not a person of academic art, she always preferred modern artists with their brave ideas and she had her own ones. At the age of 15 she got acquainted with Paul Klee, and one of his famous artworks Senecio. Helen was amazed by the bright color scheme and composition as well as simple forms which create something grandiose, the artwork she could admire for hours. One of the most important artworks for Helen is Fidelity of love, which is inspired by Klee`s Senecio.
Helen was born in a big busy city, in Kharkiv. The busy lifestyle of this city had a huge impact on her artworks. They are full of energy and motions, as well as color combinations based on the contra version of nature and city scape.
University years
For many artists who prefer working in abstract techniques the university years may look tough, as academic painting gives you completely different knowledge about art:
“It makes you create the artworks according to the rules, but abstract artists love ruining these rules.”
As for Helen, she remembers university years with warmth, as she found a lot of people who supported her direction. The professors at the university gave her a space for making her all style rather than established restrictions. Also, Helen found many friends who were addicted to modern art their creativeness and unique outlook inspired her a lot. Among these friends is Kladov and Solo L. who now are the members of TrendGallery team as well.
Italy
At the age of 22, when she got her bachelor`s, she traveled with her parents to Italy, where they lived more than 5 years. These years changed the direction of her artworks to landscapes
“ When you sit near the sea, you realize that it`s such a powerful, even more powerful than any human being in this world”
At the time when she lived in Italy, she started to experiment with color scheme of her paintings. As the artist says herself “It`s impossible to remain indifferent to the colors in this multicolor country. They are literally everywhere: in the reflection of sunrise in the sea waters, the colors of houses and tablecloth in restaurants, even people`s aura is so colorful”.
The artist started to catch interest in yoga and meditation, she read a lot of books about Buddhist way of life as she believed that only inner stability would bring her to her own way of making art. She found her personal interest in “walking meditation”, when you immense into trance state while walking outside.
“This type of meditation is about self-control, when your eyes are open and you are moving your body parts while walking, but still can concentrate on your inner feelings rather than outer factors.”
Helen managed to comprehend how to stay focused on your feelings while being disturbed by all the objects and sound outside. She did it through the concentration on colors of everything outside and her personal attitude and feelings from these colors.
Helen says that the ideas of below paintings was born in the trance states of mind.
Travelling to the Carpathians
Helen left Italy when she was 27, and it was caused by her desire to go back to the homeland and create her art there.
“It was my last ingredient in the recip of my own art, the feeling of home. I felt that I would never have this feeling of home anywhere, even in sunny Italy. Ukraine was in my heart”
The artist moved to western part of Ukraine and dedicated herself to travelling around this beautiful region. The next stage of her inspiration was hiking and Mountaiscape admiring. “The more I was thinking about my perception of the world the more I realized that I take inspiration in something big and powerful. Mountains, sea, skyscrapers ets. And in my works, I tried to describe inner feelings from all the objects of my admiration”. After her hiking experience, she was staying a lot of time at home and was just trying to recall the impressions over the Mountains she saw.
She brought a small notebook everywhere with her , she wrote down the emotions she felt at this or that time during her trips as well as made tiny sketches of the views.
Paris
As a fan of big and powerful things Helen traveled to Paris, as this is absolutely a city of huge size landmarks. She was in love with Paris and she haven`t made mistake when she came to there.
“Louvre and Versalle were awesome, but have you ever noticed how big all the landmarks are? These people knew what to build to impress the tourists” Helen realized that a weekend in Paris is nothing to get to know this city and to dive into it`s tiniest cultural aspects. She went back there in several month and lived 1 month in Paris, studying all the landmarks and streets accurately. No details were missed.
“It was exciting experience, I felt myself in another world, very unknown one, but the one which was getting more and more familiar to me with every next day.”
List of Exhibitions
2015 - All-Ukrainian Exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Artist, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kharkiv.
2016 - Plein Air in Art Village (Artyuhivka, Kharkiv region, Ukraine).
2016 - Social eco project within Ukrainian Fashion Bazaar (Uzhhorod, Ukraine).
2017 - Members of National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
2017 - Open contest in painting "Silver Easel (autumn)" (Uzhhorod, Khust, Transcarpathian region, Ukraine).
2018 – Art Exhibition "Magic of colour" Historical and Architectural Conservation Area of Zhovkva (Lviv region, Ukraine).
2018 - Art Residence within Cinemaway fest ( Zhovkva, Lviv region, Ukraine).
2019 – Personal Exhibition in Kharkiv Exhibitions center
2019 - All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition "Charming and eternal", National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kharkiv.
2019 - All-Ukrainian Exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Artist, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kharkiv.
