Added Jul 23, 2012
'Sea Songs' Art exhibition Oksana Veber, Prachen Muzeum, Pisek, Czech Republic.
Thursday 4th July: Private View.
'Sea Songs' in Prachen Muzeum, Pisek, Czech Republic.
Start Date : 2012-07-04
End Date : 2012-07-29
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to this exhibition of my works at the Prachen Museum. I would like to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude and appreciation to the Director and his staff for the kind invitation to display my pictures here and for all their help and assistance with organising the event.
Having previously exhibited at the Culture House in 2009 the opportunity to appear again in Pisek was too good to refuse. Although originally from Russia, and currently based in the United Kingdom, I lived in the Czech Republic for 12 years. I love the country and the Czech people and chose to raise my son here. I am glad to be back. It feels like I have come home!
The theme of my exhibition is “Sea Songs” and many of the pictures on display here were painted on one of my regular visits to the island of Ugljian in Croatia. Until a few days ago my pictures were being held up on the border between Croatia and Slovenia and there was a real possibility they would not make it here in time for the exhibition and I must thank my friends Zdravko and Massimo, for arranging their transportation at the last moment.
I have always been inspired by the beauty and harmony which exists in nature and my paintings are an attempt to recreate and capture this. As a four year old girl back in Russia I can remember sitting in a tree, overlooking a ravine, watching the first rays of the morning sun as they mixed with ribbons of mist rising up from the fields of tall grass before slowly fading away together.
Whatever I am painting – a woman’s body, a still life, a landscape – I try to use lines and colours to record this feeling of harmony on canvas. Pictures often come to me in my dreams at night, with the combination of colours and the composition so very real. The moment I wake up I quickly sketch the images I have seen in my dreams before they disappear in the daylight.
And so, in conclusion, I would once again like to thank the Director for this wonderful opportunity and also to thank you all for coming along tonight. I hope you enjoy the exhibition.
