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Olena Kolomoiets was born in Ukraine in 1986. Fond of drawing from her very childhood, Olena entered an art school and studied painting and composition during her school years. This is how she gained her perception of the image that makes up the world for her.
Her artistic endeavor stems from emotional search. How to address the pain of loss or unexperienced feelings through color and stain? How do they impact the shapes of the objects and the overall image depicted?
In 2008, Olena graduated from the University in Kyiv and received a diploma in graphic design. For 15 years, she has been creating digital works and design concepts for a variety of brands.
In 2012, she founded her own art school for children. And in 2018, the school opened its doors to adults as well. Olena teaches her students how to visualize emotions and be able to express and render them via painting and digital graphics.
In 2021, she participated in the ArtPrize project of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Luxembourg.
At the core of Olena’s art is the appeal to the viewer’s subconscious to give them a chance to experience the feelings that are hidden inside. This is what stands behind the Second Face project published in Marika magazine in August 2021.
Currently, Olena lives in Germany and works as an artist and digital artist.
Her artistic focus is still on emotions. She continues exploring the eternal topic of life and death as well as the emptiness which gives birth to something new. Each of her works is a visual story with its own plot, climax, and action. To achieve this effect, a painting passes through several stages and has hidden layers with a traceable scenario in them.
Each work is initiated and painted by the artist in a certain emotional mood so that the subconscious mind could pick the right shapes and colors.
Olena’s paintings are much more than works of visual art. These are messages from the inner world of one person to that of another person.
Artistic Statement
My artwork – is a visual study of emotions.
My goal is to create paintings through which the viewers can immerse themselves in their feelings and live through something complex in themselves.
I use bright colors, but when combined, dark or almost black – is the dark side, that is always with us.
There is an ocean of emotions and experiences, of our doubts or fears, that lives within each of us.
And we are being left one on one with them …
My aim – is creation of visual images as a universal language with no words, going from heart to heart, that creates a dialogue with these experiences and helps to feel them and to live them through.
Links
https://instagram.com/lena.kolomoiets