Artworks by Valentina Gaychuk

Hello, my name is Valentina. I am a professional artist and art teacher from Karelia (Russia), whose artworks are held in private collections in Europe and Russia.
 I actively draw and teach in my own art studio.
I am a member of the Union of Artists of Russia.
 Art expands the boundaries of visible space, allows us to traverse to any place and time that we visited or crave to visit. That’s what I aspire to in my works. Painting in my small and cramped studio, I expand the space with my imagination and immerse into another world. The brighter the painting is - the stronger the emotions that I experienced.

Painting is a necessity to me. I have an urge to express visually things that I see or feel, things that affect me or transfer beauty. I like to start each painting as if it were something new, guided by my intuition, often guided by color first, I start work spontaneously, depending on the place and moment in which I am. I want to show the beauty that I see in my daily life, which sometimes connected to nostalgia. My daily life, my family. I have four sons, who often inspire me, as well as the place where I live; landscapes and places where I have been; photographs that I have seen or taken; emotions that I experienced. I attempt to pass pain and joy through my heart and express it all with my artworks.

 In art, I appreciate the opportunity to convey on canvas or paper something exciting, piercingly catchy for the soul sincerely and freely.
 That’s what people write about my works: “I want to look and get bright impressions and emotions. This is what happens when I look at your work.  They stop and communicate with me, and I think with everyone! ”

EDUCATION:
Karelian State Pedagogical University/   visual art teacher