Painter Svetlana Tikhonova

"Foxy", palette knife, oil on canvas, 80x80 cm A piece from my "colorful emotions" collection where I mix fauvism and pop-art styles and do my favorite way of painting - to color faces with emotions because they are showing trough time and defining a personality. It's like a map of one's past and recent feelings compressed into one moment.

« My secret is to freely put paint on a canvas and then remove what I don't like, leaving what is beautiful. I then repeat this until I have an artwork. »

I was born in Brest, Belarus in 1974. I've got artistic education in the studio of Tolmachev, an artist and an honored art teacher. After education, I spent time mostly traveling, visiting a lot of countries from Spain to Japan, and returned to painting only much later. But Since I did in 2015, I rarely spent a day without my favorite palette knife and easel.

"Cream moon", palette knife and brush, acrylic on canvas, 50x50 cm It's always the one who stands out, no matter how distant, catches the eye... This artwork is made, how I call it, "by the state of mind". It is another style of mine, I like it very much because all secondary colors here are removed and only the main ones are left. It gives an opportunity to investigate and view an artwork "from the inside".

Most of all I'm inspired by emotions - our regular daily life is a diverse mix of different feelings. Love, joy, desire, sadness and many others - all of them I try to catch and then express through colors and balanced harmonious forms.

I use a palette knife and try to express emotions in fast large strokes so I don't lose the feelings and visions they have brought. I never plan ahead color variations and shades and I do not sketch faces since sketches are useless with very thick layers of paint. For me, all of these paintings are living a spontaneous process and clean improvisation.

Right now my artworks are sold to many private collections and are exhibited in various galleries in Paris, New York, Miami, Rome, Prague, and London.

"Prague. Staromestska", palette knife and brush, acrylic on canvas, 120x80 cm I moved to this city not a long time ago but already fell in love with it's beauty and mystical historical places. Every minute I walk its streets and squares it inspires me. But the rain in Prague is something truly special, it's the most impossible thing to resist painting.

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