About Vira Bonavia
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I get my inspiration for art while traveling around Malta by car or visiting new places abroad. My camera is always with me to capture any surprising view. Afterwards I am able to make series of paintings like "Malta" or "Venice". I also like watching other artists paint on YouTube and look at their finished work. That’s how I discovered Artfinder. Sometimes when I find myself doing nothing I get cross with myself and start looking through my photos for a new flash of inspiration. I’m like a mother waiting for her baby for months then giving birth in an hour, I keep on thinking long about ideas and then paint something in a trice. After some time I might come back to it with a fresh idea to touch up here and there. I became an artist by chance when I did 20 sketches of people for a friend of mine to give her a hand. When her art teacher caught her lying about the drawings, the teacher promised not to tell my friend's parents about it if she would introduce me to the teacher. Since then I have been working with all kinds of media depending on my mood. I fell in love with pastels in an art school. I had periods using watercolours when I studied at the Art Academy in Kiev, where I was born. When I came to Malta for good, I found an art shop, bought a lot of oil paints and made my first series of flowers. My largest pictures are 1.8m/0.9m and the smallest on a woman's nail, because now I’m working as a nail artist. That’s me!
