Biography

“What a joy it is that our life is not just made up of black and white stripes…”

Evgenia was born in Russia in 1983, after graduating from secondary school, she studied at a University in Moscow and earned a degree in Economics and Corporate Management. Always passionate about drawing, she cultivated her interest in painting until it became her life's work.

In 2014, she moved to Rome, where she obtained a second higher education in Economics. She lives and works between Rome and Calabria, enchanted by Italian and Mediterranean colors and landscapes.

Evgenia chose Italy as her new home, and Italy embraced her in return, surrounding her with colors and love. These new, vibrant, and life-filled hues brought a stunning array of shades to the artist’s palette, enabling her to convey vivid landscapes to the viewer with flora and fauna that seem to move freely across the surface of the canvas.

The author does not merely portray life in her works—her works are, in themselves, a hymn to life.

Rapid oil strokes, reminiscent of plein-air painting, reflect the artist's perception of reality: a romantic yet detail-oriented gaze that recreates a world where colors interact with emotions.

Some landscapes, painted with light, enveloping brushstrokes and characterized by a rarefied yet dynamic atmosphere pierced by the energy of light, bear resemblance to the XIX-century English style of John Constable and William Turner.

The energy of the colours, however, is even more powerful, almost expressionist when the artist focuses on details: a flower, a small bird, a shell, a tree that turns blue. Here the subjects almost float on backgrounds rich in brushwork; canvases on which every available inch is used to envelop the viewer with intense shapes and colours, drawing them into the movement of the work and away from any other context, captivating them with a vortex made up of every imaginable colour.

The author’s passion for natural beauty inevitably shapes her view of society, and it is from this observation that the cycle of her works devoted to humanity, and to women in particular, emerges.

Observing how people lose their naturalness, distorting their identities under the pressure of increasingly extreme beauty standards, has captured the artist's attention; she documents this phenomenon dispassionately, creating a delicate statement of facts tinged with a touch of irony.

The loss of individuality and uniqueness in favor of artificial uniformity is effectively conveyed in the series of canvases featuring abstract backgrounds deprived of perspective, dominated by identical, expressionless female faces with blank stares.

These works are far from expressing the vitality that prevailed in the earlier explorations; nevertheless, the author retains her expressiveness, conveying the feeling of discomfort from uniformity by caricaturing stereotypical images and contrasting them with a remarkable variety of color schemes.

An intense, almost artificial color that nonetheless reminds of the complexity of distinctions. Evgenia’s colors are the colors of hope, the colors of life itself.

Artistic evolution and the search for new stimuli continue to unfold.

Evgenia embodies this new evolutionary stage through the precise technique of visual depiction of faces and signs that strike the observer with their inner expressiveness: eyes, mouth, facial expressions, and lines on the forehead.

This is how Evgenia’s research unfolds, striving to give meaning to the colors of life.