natalya pravda

Natalia Pravda was born in 1986 in Ukraine. In 2009, she graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State Academy of Construction and Architecture. After graduating from the academy, she continues her education, honing her skills in painting and sculpture. Previously, she worked a lot with bas-reliefs and monumental painting, but after a while, she decided to fully dedicate herself to painting. Currently, Natalia lives and works in Dnipro, Ukraine. @@Natalia is an artist who experiments with the use of natural equipment and raw materials to create her works. Their images range from abstract to figurative; they often contain lettered or additional references. Despite all possible similarities, Natalia leaned towards a more open reading of her work, warning that: "We have the opportunity to read things, to read everything in what we understand. The purity of color and its interaction with the canvas create a quiet openness." This is what I try to convey in my works. @@I strive to let the painting create itself, to create conditions in which it will grow, become something. I do not build a painting brick by brick, as you build a brick wall, but rather create conditions and allow something to change, and it happens suddenly. @@I often reflect on what materials to use, so sometimes it really is an exploration. As if you have penetrated into a space where you have never been before and mentioned things whose existence you were not even aware of. For me, this becomes more and more interesting. It is @@always a factor of surprise, so you cannot predict when you combine this element and that element together, and the idea or final result will be good; there are no recipes, and it does not look good to see the same thing over and over again and think that it gives the same thing, because there is a lot of improvisation, but this improvisation is based on experience. There is not much time for reflection, so it is better to be ready to act when the right moment comes. @@Painting leaves traces somewhere, just as our life leaves traces in space, on walls, or in the environment in which we live. Therefore, I try to leave traces and understand the canvas as a place where it was inevitably, where constant events are constantly happening, where life occurs. @@Although I always order what I have already done and rely on my experience, I have to risk everything I have. I invest everything I have into this painting or the next canvas. And suddenly, you can feel completely empty, feel that you have absolutely nothing. It is like starting from scratch, and it is very scary. @@I believe in the idea of funding painting, which some artists do not like. And even if you have a talent for something and you know that it will be something worth existing for some time, you have to put in all the effort."