Kseniia Turik

Joined Artfinder: April 2026

Artworks for sale: 29

Spain

Updates from Kseniia Turik's studio

  • Before the first layer · Marbella studio

    Before the first layer · Marbella studio

    The white canvas before anything is touched. This is always the moment I think about most — what the painting will become, what it will refuse to become. Liquitex gesso, acrylics, pigments, gold leaf, resin — every material in reach. From here, the surface starts to build, layer by layer, until the work finds its own form.

    03 May 2026
    The pour

    The pour

    The acrylic layer is already complete — blues and greens built up over days. The resin I am pouring is fully transparent. Once it lands on the surface, it spreads, levels, and seals everything underneath into one continuous skin. After this moment, nothing can be changed.

    03 May 2026
    Torching the resin · Marbella studio

    Torching the resin · Marbella studio

    Flame is part of working with epoxy resin. Once the layer is poured, I pass a torch over the surface to release the air bubbles trapped inside — without this step, the finish would never settle into a clean, mirror-like skin. Every painting in the Through Matter series passes through fire before it is finished.

    03 May 2026
    Building the surface

    Building the surface

    Every layer has to set before the next one is poured. The work is slow, technical, almost architectural. I think of each painting as a structure built in time — not made all at once, but assembled, layer after layer, until the surface holds light.

    03 May 2026
    Atelier · Marbella and Paris

    Atelier · Marbella and Paris

    My practice moves between two studios — one in Marbella, one in Paris. The work itself is the same; the light is different. Mediterranean clarity in the south, deeper shadows in the north. Both shape the surface in their own way.

    03 May 2026
    The moment light meets the surface

    The moment light meets the surface

    Up close, the painting stops being an image and becomes a landscape. Acrylic and pigment build the form in successive layers; resin is the final, transparent skin that holds everything in place and lets light pass through. The depth you see is real — built layer by layer, then sealed.

    03 May 2026
    Mixing resin · Atelier

    Mixing resin · Atelier

    Precise proportions are everything. Resin is a chemistry before it becomes a painting — temperature, ratio, timing all decide whether the surface will hold light or fail. This is the quiet, technical part of the work, before the pour begins.

    03 May 2026
    Working with resin

    Working with resin

    Resin is unforgiving — once it begins to flow, there is no going back. Every gesture has to be considered. The mask, the gloves, the protection are part of the discipline this material demands. The Through Matter series lives in this dialogue between control and surrender.

    03 May 2026
    Through Matter

    Through Matter

    My work is structured around two distinct bodies of work inspired by natural phenomena such as water, light, sun, and mineral textures. Through Matter explores acrylic combined with resin, creating high-gloss compositions where depth, reflection, and layering evoke fluidity and immersion. Silence Before Form is based on acrylic with a matte or softly varnished finish, forming more restrained, elegant works in pastel tones. Together, these two directions create a dialogue between reflection and opacity, depth and softness, allowing each piece to evolve in relation to light and space.

    13 April 2026