ALONE WITH MYSELF Painting

Veronika Kryukova was born in 1994 in the Far East off the coast of the Sea of Japan, in Russia. Her grandmother instilled in her a love of painting and nature, and her father instilled in her. In 2008, she entered the Marx Children's Art School, where Veronika was accepted immediately into the second grade, and from the third she immediately moved to the fourth. So, in 2009, she received a diploma with honors in Fine Arts. Due to some events, she did not paint for several years, and in 2019 decided to make painting the main business of her life. Veronika creates abstract landscapes inspired by nature. She is attracted to secluded, quiet places where everyone can be alone with themselves. Her deep, muted works immerse the viewer and prompt reflections. The artist's works are an offer to relax, to escape from the noise. This is an offer to listen to yourself, get rid of the pretense, discover what's inside, be honest and live your own life. Veronika finds the understatement and incompleteness of the work funny and attractive. At the same time, she strives for a unified visual and tactile aesthetics, so she pays great attention to working with the texture of the material, creating matte, rough surfaces. She is attracted to the philosophy of wabi-sabi. And also, Veronika likes to create atmospheric videos with the painting process, you can see them on YouTube.