"Mindfulness" (2024) Original Oil Painting by Nina Grigel

The cat in this painting is the humanization of civilization imposed upon the wild. He is no longer merely a predator driven by hunger.

His mindfulness is the key. He does not simply "refrain" from eating the birds — he consciously renounces his innate, most primal program. This is an act of supreme will and compassion. By freeing them, he is not passive but an active creator of this new reality. He has taken responsibility for the lives of others, transgressing the law of his own nature.

Series: "Baby, It's Just the End to Start Again"

What if we were shown that the end is not a finish line, but a door? This series of works offers precisely this perspective. It is a journey to the border, where the ruins of the old world become the foundation for the new.

I invite us to let go of the fear of finality and see in it a magical threshold beyond which a new reality is born.
"Baby, it's just the end..." is both a whisper and a battle cry. It is a reminder that every destruction carries within it the seed of future creation.

Through a series of paintings, I explore the alchemy of transformation: how pain turns into experience, how clarity is born from the ashes of doubt, and how infinite potential arises from emptiness.

Find inspiration for your own "beginning."
Selected Exhibitions
2025–2026 – Solo Exhibition at Naprotiv Gallery
2025 – SberUniversity "New Horizons", Moscow Region
2024 – "A Word About the Russian Heart" Festival, Beijing
2024 – ArtExpo New York 2024, New York
2024 – La Pigna Gallery, Rome
2024 – ArtPlay Moscow, Kvartiras Gallery, Moscow
2024 – Pavlodar City Museum, Kazakhstan
2023 – Shanghai International Art Fair (SIAF), Shanghai
2023 – "Zdes na Taganke" Gallery, Moscow
2022 – ArtDom, Winzavod, Moscow
2021 – Kibart, Moscow
2021 – International Exhibition Competition of Futuristic Art, Moscow
2021 – Artplay, Moscow
2021 – Finalist, Russian Art Awards, Moscow House of Artists, Moscow
2021 – International Exhibition "SCOLKOVO Plaza ArtShow", Moscow
2021 – Art Cosmos, Evraziya Gallery, Moscow
2021 – Online Exhibition & Competition "Sbornaya Solianka", Alipova Gallery
Collections
2023 – Lucy Chebotina Charity Auction, Private Collection
Publications
Art MUSE Magazine – "Art Survey" column, 2024, Issue No. 18

Materials used:

oil on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 80 x 100cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Unspecified
• Subject: Animals and birds