Featured Artist Victoria Kudryavtseva

Artist Victoria Kudryavtseva presents a fascinating collection of batik paintings filled with color and movement. Find more of her work here.

 

 

I paint on natural silk and cotton using a batik technique. My creative work is a very exciting process! It’s like magic when the white material begins to live and glow in my work and emotions. I paint all types of batik: cold, hot and batik in watercolor technique. My art serves as a means of self-expression and a method of communication with the world and people around me.

 

 

I graduated from an art university, but for 25 years art was a hobby for me. I devoted a lot of time to other tasks and responsibilities. At the same time I always painted and created interior items and works of art on silk.

 

 

In 2023, I rethought my attitude towards art and devoted all my time to creativity and self-presentation. I became a full-time artist, every day, seven days a week.

 

 

When I dye silk, I pay attention to small details. How the tube of reserve goes over uneven areas of the silk, how the dye flows across the fabric. I love watching white silk become multicolored. I love to immerse myself in extremely complex work so that everything around me ceases to exist. It’s just me and my art.

 

 

Ideas come from everywhere. It happens that I see a picture and it inspires me. Or I draw a scarf and like the intermediate stage. I memorize a step and reproduce it as the main drawing. One day I took a photo of the seashore, and realized it was a ready-made design that would look great on fabric. And it worked! You can draw anything on silk. There are no restrictions.

 

 

I like to change up the standard batik painting. Thanks to my extensive artistic experience and many years of practice, I have developed an individual artistic technique for painting on silk. I like to create paintings on complex spiritual and moral themes, combining decorative art and thematic paintings that change the direction of standards in fabric painting techniques.

 

 

I am very interested in thematic competitions on given topics. It offers an opportunity to work on a rather complex and large task. The artist can change the standard idea of drawing on silk, and makes it possible to introduce the viewer to this type of art.

 

 

At the moment I am a participant and winner of more than 20 exhibitions, auctions and competitions in Europe and the USA. Most of my works are kept in private collections. This gives me a great incentive to continue and create new projects.

 

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