Ekaterina Kolesnikova on her workspace and paintings

The Leninsky Market art space  (108 Leninsky Prospekt, Building 1, 2nd floor, Moscow) is currently hosting “Interweavings,” an exhibition by Kvartira S artist Ekaterina Kolesnikova. 

Ekaterina shared some of her secrets with us:

On the Studio 

“My favorite place at home is my study. True, it is not an artist’s studio in the traditional sense, with paint-splattered walls, canvases and stretchers propped up in every corner, jars of technical fluids, books, and all that creative chaos veiled in age-old dust! It is a clean, intimate, cozy little haven where the multitude of ideas occupying most of my thoughts flows in a slender stream onto paper as sketches and compositional studies, only a small fraction of which earn the right to be brought to life on canvas. All the agonies of the creative process take place at this stage.
 
 
 
As I work, I do not leap around the easel covered ‘up to my elbows’ in paint or rework a piece ten times over, because by the time I begin executing the idea in its final format, I am already completely certain of how everything should be.”
 

About the Works in the Exhibition

The “Colors of Montenegro” series - 

a homage to a beautiful place. 

The Bay of Kotor, the largest bay in the Adriatic Sea, encircled by a belt of mountains like a garland. Vivid, rainbow colors burst forth from a frozen stone moment of history.

The “Black Mountains” take on color.

“Mimosa Festival” A vivid celebration dedicated to the first blossoming, held in the city of Herceg-Novi in Montenegro. Yellow, fluffy little suns upon the blue carpet of sky, sea, and mountains. The tender breath of spring, its first rays.

The “Green” triptych.

The deep, life-giving color of water, foliage, and moss underscores the particular beauty of this place.

“Good Morning” 

 “Where To Today?” 

The harbor in the city of Budva, sailing boats and yachts moored along these shores. 

Morning is my favorite time of day. As I am an “early bird,” my morning begins early. With a contemplative gaze I watch everything around me awaken, true serenity painted in fresh turquoise, pink, and tender yellow. 

A weightless, translucent, yet already palpable joy of a new journey. 

More works by Ekaterina Kolesnikova