United Kingdom-based realist artist Arina Gordienko is a multi-award winner and finalist of art contests in the U.K., USA and Europe, and her artwork is exhibited in museums and galleries across the world. A form of “imaginative realism,” Gordienko employs classical techniques alongside creative compositions, inserting into her works her own contemporary essence.
Full Moon, oil on Belgian linen, 36 x 48"
“I love working in my studio,” says the artist. “I feel peaceful and blessed when I work. It takes me about 180 to 200 hours to complete one painting, and I love every moment of my work...My life experience has taught me one important lesson: If you want to achieve something, you have to move and get yourself ready for working hard.”
Life in Crimson Flame, which Gordienko created specifically for an exhibition at the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, is an important piece to her.
Life in Crimson Flame, oil on Belgian linen, 36 x 48"
After You, oil on Belgian linen, 48 x 36"
“I wanted to show a strong woman who is powerful in all her feminine beauty [and] glory and yet fragile and vulnerable in her feelings and emotions. I was changing the expression of her face several times until I saw in her eyes exactly what I wanted to manifest within this work,” she says. “When I work on portraits, I become obsessed with the images that I am painting. I am trying to capture and express on canvas a pure essence of a human’s soul, and I [put] my own soul into my works.”
Transition, oil on canvas, 72 x 48"
The 72-by-48-inch oil Transition depicts a man in red turning his back toward the viewer and venturing into a new, unknown space. “I wanted to express in this work a transition as crossing a certain line, or a border that restricts stepping over it and demands awareness of something forbidden—a determined limitation...Transition is supposed to be an act of stepping from one state or place or situation to another one, changing into something different with new content and new essence,” she says.
“I think that creative energy and its creator [fuel] each other equally...I hope that viewers of my works can feel the inspiration and positive creative energy that I share with them.” —
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