Katerina Pyatakova

My story was beginning from the feeling of new times and new possibilities. I did not feel scare but I felt I have a lot of time for art. I wanted to try new ways. No workshops, no students, only art. I`ve started from the windows views. Different states of nature, any daytime. Also, the new opportunity was new knowledges about art via online education.

So, I successfully studied the MoMa course of modern art and get the certificate. It gave me a lot of inspiration and different new looks to art. Next step was to come back to my travel studies. I think that moment I was beginning to understand impossibility of travels now. It made me feel a little bit constrained. I’ve done a few works from my Portuguese vacation in Sarges. This place is also known as the End of the Earth. There were a lot of sun in my little travel studies. But that moment for me there were full of cold wind and less sunlight. My artwork «Above the red rocks» is about it.

Next period I want to describe was calmness.

That moment was mirrored in my artwork «Drinking the air». The state of meditation. I remember that I looked at the sky I feel fullness and emptiness at the same time. I felt that I could not breath, but I could drink the air. No stokes on the paper, only the feeling of the air.

Next period was disquiet.

And the new feeling was far from home.

When I was powerless to help my parents in struggle with COVID I raised my eyes to the sky restraining an inner cry.

And I feel that the sky hears me. Unbelievable unity between the amazing beauty of nature and the anxiety in the heart. My artwork «When the sky hears you» is about it. I’ve started to make bold strokes, to use bright colours. I think it helps me to realize my inner state and my feelings of the surrounding world. This is an emotional compensation. Now I want to paint the light.