Atmospheric Study No. 18 (2026) Original Oil Painting by Daria Zavadenko

Part of an ongoing series exploring the relationship between horizon, atmosphere, and landscape space.

This original oil painting draws light from restrained grounds, allowing luminosity to emerge through layered, expressive palette knife marks. Birch trees stand apart yet together, their pale trunks holding a fragile space between earth and sky. Above, the composition dissolves into warm rose and terracotta light, tender and almost sweet. Below, the ground darkens into fragmented, restless forms that refuse to settle. Between these two truths, white light and open air inhabit the space between the trunks, at once breath and distance.

Rather than depicting a specific location, the painting explores landscape as a space shaped by memory, loss, and the persistence of feeling. The birch is not a botanical subject but a personal and cultural image, a place that can no longer be returned to as it was remembered.

Part of the Atmospheric Studies series.

Materials used:

Oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 35 x 45 x 1.5cm (unframed) / 35 x 45cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky