I
created a series of paintings dedicated to the topic "Children at Work and
Creativeness". My works represent the images from different countries
(Russia, Israel, Palestine) which reflect bright and spontaneous children
expression in the processes of creativeness and their work.
I
find it very important to show realistically the inner process of a child's
feelings irrespective of national boundaries. I also consider it crucial to
express the soul impulse of a child at the moment of creativeness and work.
While
studying and creating the image I noticed the difference of the social
environment where children live. This idea influenced my works and I paid a special
attention to it. Thus the motive of children's creativeness and work is being
tightly connected with the relevant social problems of the present-day society.
At
a certain stage of my work within this concept I came to the conclusion that
the images and the essential things which are of an interest to me could be
expressed only by the means of realism. I attempt to draw a connection between
a character of the picture and his or her real environment, particular places
of living and traditional roots.
The
picture images are born out of facing with real children, their every-day
troubles, dreams, games, responsibility for each other. While continuing my
work I aim at expressing the collective image of a child, at achieving the
feedback from the audience, at drawing its attention to the most vital things
in life - the future human-beings.
I use the combined technique, starting
sketches on the computer, continuing the work with pastel. I try to achieve the
expressive combination of pastel paints gently merging one into another and the
widely drawn flat background, intermixing with the surface of the picture. The
horizon vanishes, the space of the picture is being completely objectified. All
this comes out of the desire to fill every inch of the painting with the ideal
significance. Thus, the whole picture space is transforming from a field of
direct reality expression into the so-called screen for reality reproduction
and intensification.
