Own technique: Italian gold cardboard, ink, gold pen, acrylic, tempera, dimensions of the work: 53 x 40 cm, in a double gold-brown Italian wooden frame, in a box (75 x 62 cm); spatial frame
Lena SUBOTA .She is a graduate of the renowned high school of fine arts in Yaroslavl and one of the best academies of fine arts in St. Petersburg, Russia. She lives and works there, in mixed techniques such as drawing, watercolor and oil, which she combines in a very unique and proper style. In the choice of means of artistic expression used by Lena, one can see the complex intertwining of different eras, styles and cultures. In the ephemerality and fabulousness of the themes, in the brilliance of the painting - Gothic motifs of the European Middle Ages. In the refinement, light mannerism and melancholy - the lines of the Italian Renaissance. In the shimmer of golden patterns on a deep dark blue background, in the calligraphic web of intricate drawing - the influence of the Byzantine era. In the grandeur and apparent ornamentation of still life - features of Dutch painting.
The artist's great recognition has resulted in numerous invitations to cooperate by such eminent institutions as the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Mariinsky Theater, the Ekaterinin Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
The exquisite interweaving of colors, harmony of lines, finesse of ornaments and intertwining of themes and threads have materialized for more than thirty years in paintings filled with light, air and senses, where reality mixes with fantasy. Lena Subota's paintings plunge us into a magically dualistic world of fiction and reality, in which there is no room for gloomy moods and problems of everyday life.
Her paintings force us to daydream.
