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Otok Ugljan kao vrelo inspiracije

Piše: Ivan Stagličić

18.08.2011

Od prvih radova do danas umjetnica je kroz istu filozofsku postavku i motive razvijala svoj rad mijenjajući ga stilski i istražujući slikarski medij kombiniranjem utjecaja različitih umjetničkih epoha prilagođavajući ih vrlo uspješno vlastitom duhu i inspiraciji koju pronalazi u sebi, kazala je Koraljka Alavanja

U galeriji  Pučkog otvorenog učilišta  "Dom na žalu" otvorena je  izložba "Morski san - Sea  dream", češke slikarice Oksane Veber. Oksana Veber  završila je Akademiju likovnih umjetnosti u Kijevu,  a dosad je izlagala u Ukrajini, Češkoj, Danskoj, Francuskoj, Velikoj Britaniji i  SAD-u, a posebno su zapažena bila njezina oslikavanja javih prostora i  građevina. O radu Oksane  Veber, okupljenima je govorila povjesničarka umjetnosti Koraljka Alavanja:

- Slikarica Oksana Veber  mir pronalazi u ljepoti krajolika, mrtve prirode, portreta žene, koje se pretočene  u harmoniju boja i oblika  nastavljaju kao inspiracija  za nastanak umjetničkog  djela. Vodeći se tom  težnjom za skladom i istražujući teme kao što su  mir, harmonija i praznina,  umjetnica je istraživala taoizam i istočnjačku filozofiju te je svoje nagnuće i  otkrivenje prenijela na slikarsko platno. Odjeke tih  utjecaja prepoznajemo prvenstveno u slikarskom  pristupu kojim umjetnica  stvara pozadinu za svoje  likove, definiranu samo kolorističkim efektima. U ranijim radovima kolorit je  ekspresivan i snažan, zatim  se lagano utišava i prelazi u  pastelne tonove plavo-sive i  oker boje u gradacijama, da  bi u najnovijem ciklusu boja  gotovo iščezla u monokromiju toplih nijansi sive kroz  koju kao svjetlosni efekt  prodire bjelina. Boje su nanesene sa širokim potezima  te se nenametljivo kombiniraju i pretapaju tvoreći  apstrakciju, koja bi u nekim  djelima mogla opstojati kao  dovršeno djelo u maniri apstraktnog ekspresionizma.  Na takvu slikarsku pozadinu slikarica tehnikom crteža tankim, razigranim, gotovo kaligrafskim potezima  crne boje stvara figuraciju,  što  meditativnoj mirnoći  pozadine daje živost i otvara prostor za novu priču,  istaknula je, između ostaloga, Alavanja te zaključila:

- Od prvih radova do  danas umjetnica je kroz istu  filozofsku postavku i motive  razvijala svoj rad mijenjajući ga stilski i istražujući  slikarski medij kombiniranjem utjecaja različitih umjetničkih epoha prilagođavajući ih vrlo uspješno  vlastitom duhu i inspiraciji  koju pronalazi u sebi.

Otvorenje izložbe uveličale su mlade dame iz  vokalno instrumentalnog  sastava Stella Maris koje su  otpjevale dvije pjesme "Vjerujem" i "Vječna pjesma ljubavi", te pjesnik prof. dr. sc.  Robert Bacalja koji je  pročitao jednu od svojih  novijih pjesama "Nova besida o veloj kobotnici na  Punti ključa".

Nazočne je pozdravio Ante Brižić, direktor TZ  Općine Preko, darovavši  umjetnici buket cvijeća i  zaželjevši joj ugodan boravak na otoku Ugljanu. U  svom obraćanju nazočnima,  Oksana Veber zahvalila je  svima i otkrila kako je otok  Ugljan postao njezin drugi  dom i izvor stalne inspiracije. Osobito joj se svidjela galerija Doma na žalu  za koju je posebno pripremila izložbu "Morski  san-Sea dream". Izložbu je  otvorio akademski slikar  Kosta Kostov, organizator  programa Međunarodne likovne kolonije Jadertina  preko koje je i Oksana Veber  upoznala i toliko zavoljela  otok Ugljan i Hrvatsku.

                                            Ivan Stagličić

18.08.2011

                                                                         Koraljka Alavanja, Zadar, 2012

Oksana Veber paintings.

       Every one of us longs for peace, equivalence and harmony, and turns to different sources in order to come close to this – sources such as natural beauties, meditation, exploration of spirit or sound. The painter Oksana Veber finds her peace in the beauty of landscape, still nature, portrait of a woman, which, transfused into a harmony of colours and shapes, continue their life as an inspiration for a work of art. Guided by this urge for equivalence and investigating themes such as peace, harmony and emptiness, the artist explored Taoism and eastern philosophy and transferred her longing and revelation onto the canvas. The echoes of these influences can be recognized primarily in the painting approach that the artist uses to create background for her figures, defined only by colouristic effects.

            In her earlier works the colours are expressive and powerful, then they slowly mellow down into pastel shades of blue-gray and ochre in gradations, only to almost disappear into monochrome of warm nuances of gray infiltrated by whiteness as a light effect in her most recent cycle. Colours applied in wide brushstrokes and unobtrusively combine merging into an abstraction, which, in some paintings, could stand as a complete work of art in the manner of abstract Expressionism. On this background, the artist draws figuration using thin, playful, almost calligraphic black strokes that gives sparkle to the background's meditative peacefulness and opens space for a new story.

            In most of her paintings, female portrait occurs as the main motif. It presented as a melancholic yet sensual figure with full lips, almond-shaped eyes looking down, head gently leaning, trapped in her dreamy, fairytale world. On one hand this secrecy is owed to the poetics that can be traced in Jugendstil or Vienna Seccession, and on the other to the Russian fantasy that we find in Chagall for instance. In her new cycle of works we are often find double or multiple portraits in one painting, but the figures do not communicate with each other, nor with the viewer neither by gesture nor by gaze; instead they open paths towards themselves by subtly communicating with the object of their attention – usually a musical instrument or a cat, a bird, a bowl with fruit. These also appear as the main motif, painted contourly by the same quick, skillful strokes of black line, with only some of the elements emphasized by colour.

            Moreover, in this exhibition the artist presents several of her landscapes. "Los Cristianos" is a powerful painting, painted in shades of brown with sharp, confronting strokes, as if it originated in the English Impressionism, while the other two are much more peaceful, with bluish tones and softer brushstrokes, evoking with their style the French Impressionism.

            From her first paintings until today, the artist has evolved her work using the same philosophical outlook and with the same motivation, changing it in style and exploring the painting medium by combining the influences of different art periods that she successfully adjusts to her own spirit and inspiration found within.

2012 Koraljka Alavanja 

Dear Friends,
I opened my Art Page on Facebook where I put new art show reports, thoughts and photos.
Please check it up, I hope you like it!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oksana-Veber-Art/191777837613071

Have nice day 
Oksana Veber

Koraljka Alavanja, Zadar, 2012

Oksana Veber paintings.

       Every one of us longs for peace, equivalence and harmony, and turns to different sources in order to come close to this – sources such as natural beauties, meditation, exploration of spirit or sound. The painter Oksana Veber finds her peace in the beauty of landscape, still nature, portrait of a woman, which, transfused into a harmony of colours and shapes, continue their life as an inspiration for a work of art. Guided by this urge for equivalence and investigating themes such as peace, harmony and emptiness, the artist explored Taoism and eastern philosophy and transferred her longing and revelation onto the canvas. The echoes of these influences can be recognized primarily in the painting approach that the artist uses to create background for her figures, defined only by colouristic effects.

            In her earlier works the colours are expressive and powerful, then they slowly mellow down into pastel shades of blue-gray and ochre in gradations, only to almost disappear into monochrome of warm nuances of gray infiltrated by whiteness as a light effect in her most recent cycle. Colours applied in wide brushstrokes and unobtrusively combine merging into an abstraction, which, in some paintings, could stand as a complete work of art in the manner of abstract Expressionism. On this background, the artist draws figuration using thin, playful, almost calligraphic black strokes that gives sparkle to the background's meditative peacefulness and opens space for a new story.

            In most of her paintings, female portrait occurs as the main motif. It presented as a melancholic yet sensual figure with full lips, almond-shaped eyes looking down, head gently leaning, trapped in her dreamy, fairytale world. On one hand this secrecy is owed to the poetics that can be traced in Jugendstil or Vienna Seccession, and on the other to the Russian fantasy that we find in Chagall for instance. In her new cycle of works we are often find double or multiple portraits in one painting, but the figures do not communicate with each other, nor with the viewer neither by gesture nor by gaze; instead they open paths towards themselves by subtly communicating with the object of their attention – usually a musical instrument or a cat, a bird, a bowl with fruit. These also appear as the main motif, painted contourly by the same quick, skillful strokes of black line, with only some of the elements emphasized by colour.

            Moreover, in this exhibition the artist presents several of her landscapes. "Los Cristianos" is a powerful painting, painted in shades of brown with sharp, confronting strokes, as if it originated in the English Impressionism, while the other two are much more peaceful, with bluish tones and softer brushstrokes, evoking with their style the French Impressionism.

            From her first paintings until today, the artist has evolved her work using the same philosophical outlook and with the same motivation, changing it in style and exploring the painting medium by combining the influences of different art periods that she successfully adjusts to her own spirit and inspiration found within.

2012 Koraljka Alavanja 

The exhibition called "The Gender Agenda" will start Thursday the 28th February at 6 pm for the opening at the gallery. There will be live music during this evening. The exhibition will gather different artists and topics about women lives today.



I hope to see all of you on this event!


The W3 gallery

Phone: 0208 993 6158


Address

185 High Street

Acton

LONDON

W3 8DJ

 

ASC Open Studios: 8/9 December 2012

Oksana Veber. Studio 205


ASC are one of the largest organisations providing workspaces to artists in the United Kingdom and they are holding an open studios event on 8/9 December 2012 at Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8EQ.


Admission to the event is free and provides an opportunity to meet artists at work in their own studios, and to gain a better understanding of contemporary art. In many cases you will also be able to buy work directly from the artists themselves without gallery commission.


Erlang House is less than five minutes walk from Southwark tube station (Jubilee Line). Elephant and Castle, Lambeth North and Waterloo are also within easy walking distance.


Come and visit us. The event is open between 11:00 and 17:00 each day.

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.

Thursday 12th April: Private View.

'An Ideal Soup'

THE BAR Gallery

Willesden green Centre

95 High Road

London

6NW10 2SF

United Kingdom,

2012-04-12 to 2012-05-05.

ARTIST PROFILE

OKSANA VEBER

Oksana Veber was born in Barnaul in the Altaj region of Russia.  She has lived in the United Kingdom since 2010 having also spent several years living in the Czech Republic.

Oksana studied art at the Briansk Art College in Russia and the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts in the Ukraine.  She also gained a BA in Practical Psychology from the Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management in Kiev.  Oksana is a Member of the International Association of Commercial Artists.

Oksana has been drawing since the age of four and exhibiting since 1987.  Her paintings are in galleries and private collections in several European countries and also the USA, Australia, South Africa and Israel.

Oksana’s painting style has undergone a transformation over the years.  Her first paintings were landscapes which reflected her fascination with Daoism and other Eastern philosophies and incorporated themes such as peace and harmony.  Some of her more recent works contain the same themes but through the portrayal of women in a warm and positive style.  Oksana’s subtle use of colours ranging from warm wood to gold and glimmering coppers gives these pictures a unique and sensual aura.  For the past seven years Oksana has participated in art workshops in Croatia and Bulgaria which has enabled her to pursue her love of nature and how to work in harmony with the natural world.  Oksana’s style continues to develop with her paintings becoming more abstract over time.  Her use of colour, line and form demonstrates the communication and connection which exists between the figures and backgrounds in her pictures whilst at the same time conveying movement that brings each work to life.

Oksana’s Statement:-

“I continue to be inspired by the beauty and harmony which exists in nature and my paintings are an attempt to recreate and capture this.  My earliest memories from childhood are of me sitting in a tree, overlooking a ravine, watching the first rays of the morning sun as they mix with ribbons of mist rising from the fields of tall grass before slowly fading away together.

Irrespective of whether I am painting a woman’s body, a still life or a landscape I try to use lines and colours to record this feeling of harmony on a canvas.  Pictures often come to me in my dreams at night – with the combination of colours and the composition so very real.  When I wake I quickly sketch the images I have seen in my dreams before they disappear in the daylight.”

Oksana currently works from her studio in South London and her website can be viewed at www.veberoksana.com

Thursday 12th April: Private View. Art Harlesden Gallery

59a Charlton Road, Harlesden, NW10 4BB, London, United Kingdom,

2012-04-12 to 2012-05-05.

Oksana Veber was born in Barnaul in the Altaj region of Russia.  She has lived in the United Kingdom since 2010 having also spent several years living in the Czech Republic.

Oksana studied art at the Briansk Art College in Russia and the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts in the Ukraine.  She also gained a BA in Practical Psychology from the Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management in Kiev.  Oksana is a Member of the International Association of Commercial Artists.

Oksana has been drawing since the age of four and exhibiting since 1987.  Her paintings are in galleries and private collections in several European countries and also the USA, Australia, South Africa and Israel.

Oksana’s painting style has undergone a transformation over the years.  Her first paintings were landscapes which reflected her fascination with Daoism and other Eastern philosophies and incorporated themes such as peace and harmony.  Some of her more recent works contain the same themes but through the portrayal of women in a warm and positive style.  Oksana’s subtle use of colours ranging from warm wood to gold and glimmering coppers gives these pictures a unique and sensual aura.  For the past seven years Oksana has participated in art workshops in Croatia and Bulgaria which has enabled her to pursue her love of nature and how to work in harmony with the natural world.  Oksana’s style continues to develop with her paintings becoming more abstract over time.  Her use of colour, line and form demonstrates the communication and connection which exists between the figures and backgrounds in her pictures whilst at the same time conveying movement that brings each work to life.

Oksana’s Statement:-

“I continue to be inspired by the beauty and harmony which exists in nature and my paintings are an attempt to recreate and capture this.  My earliest memories from childhood are of me sitting in a tree, overlooking a ravine, watching the first rays of the morning sun as they mix with ribbons of mist rising from the fields of tall grass before slowly fading away together.

Irrespective of whether I am painting a woman’s body, a still life or a landscape I try to use lines and colours to record this feeling of harmony on a canvas.  Pictures often come to me in my dreams at night – with the combination of colours and the composition so very real.  When I wake I quickly sketch the images I have seen in my dreams before they disappear in the daylight.”

Oksana currently works from her studio in South London and her website can be viewed at www.veberoksana.com

"Rising Stars",group exhibition New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham,United Kingdom,

2012-04-06 to 2012-05-05

Oksana Veber was born in Barnaul in the Altaj region of Russia.  She has lived in the United Kingdom since 2010 having also spent several years living in the Czech Republic.

Oksana studied art at the Briansk Art College in Russia and the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts in the Ukraine.  She also gained a BA in Practical Psychology from the Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management in Kiev.  Oksana is a Member of the International Association of Commercial Artists.

Oksana has been drawing since the age of four and exhibiting since 1987.  Her paintings are in galleries and private collections in several European countries and also the USA, Australia, South Africa and Israel.

Oksana’s painting style has undergone a transformation over the years.  Her first paintings were landscapes which reflected her fascination with Daoism and other Eastern philosophies and incorporated themes such as peace and harmony.  Some of her more recent works contain the same themes but through the portrayal of women in a warm and positive style.  Oksana’s subtle use of colours ranging from warm wood to gold and glimmering coppers gives these pictures a unique and sensual aura.  For the past seven years Oksana has participated in art workshops in Croatia and Bulgaria which has enabled her to pursue her love of nature and how to work in harmony with the natural world.  Oksana’s style continues to develop with her paintings becoming more abstract over time.  Her use of colour, line and form demonstrates the communication and connection which exists between the figures and backgrounds in her pictures whilst at the same time conveying movement that brings each work to life.

Oksana’s Statement:-

“I continue to be inspired by the beauty and harmony which exists in nature and my paintings are an attempt to recreate and capture this.  My earliest memories from childhood are of me sitting in a tree, overlooking a ravine, watching the first rays of the morning sun as they mix with ribbons of mist rising from the fields of tall grass before slowly fading away together.

Irrespective of whether I am painting a woman’s body, a still life or a landscape I try to use lines and colours to record this feeling of harmony on a canvas.  Pictures often come to me in my dreams at night – with the combination of colours and the composition so very real.  When I wake I quickly sketch the images I have seen in my dreams before they disappear in the daylight.”

Oksana currently works from her studio in South London and her website can be viewed at www.veberoksana.com

"Mull it over",group exhibition Brighton,United Kingdom,

2012-01-12 to 2012-01-18.

                                                                         Koraljka Alavanja, Zadar, 2012

Oksana Veber paintings.

       Every one of us longs for peace, equivalence and harmony, and turns to different sources in order to come close to this – sources such as natural beauties, meditation, exploration of spirit or sound. The painter Oksana Veber finds her peace in the beauty of landscape, still nature, portrait of a woman, which, transfused into a harmony of colours and shapes, continue their life as an inspiration for a work of art. Guided by this urge for equivalence and investigating themes such as peace, harmony and emptiness, the artist explored Taoism and eastern philosophy and transferred her longing and revelation onto the canvas. The echoes of these influences can be recognized primarily in the painting approach that the artist uses to create background for her figures, defined only by colouristic effects.

            In her earlier works the colours are expressive and powerful, then they slowly mellow down into pastel shades of blue-gray and ochre in gradations, only to almost disappear into monochrome of warm nuances of gray infiltrated by whiteness as a light effect in her most recent cycle. Colours applied in wide brushstrokes and unobtrusively combine merging into an abstraction, which, in some paintings, could stand as a complete work of art in the manner of abstract Expressionism. On this background, the artist draws figuration using thin, playful, almost calligraphic black strokes that gives sparkle to the background's meditative peacefulness and opens space for a new story.

            In most of her paintings, female portrait occurs as the main motif. It presented as a melancholic yet sensual figure with full lips, almond-shaped eyes looking down, head gently leaning, trapped in her dreamy, fairytale world. On one hand this secrecy is owed to the poetics that can be traced in Jugendstil or Vienna Seccession, and on the other to the Russian fantasy that we find in Chagall for instance. In her new cycle of works we are often find double or multiple portraits in one painting, but the figures do not communicate with each other, nor with the viewer neither by gesture nor by gaze; instead they open paths towards themselves by subtly communicating with the object of their attention – usually a musical instrument or a cat, a bird, a bowl with fruit. These also appear as the main motif, painted contourly by the same quick, skillful strokes of black line, with only some of the elements emphasized by colour.

            Moreover, in this exhibition the artist presents several of her landscapes. "Los Cristianos" is a powerful painting, painted in shades of brown with sharp, confronting strokes, as if it originated in the English Impressionism, while the other two are much more peaceful, with bluish tones and softer brushstrokes, evoking with their style the French Impressionism.

            From her first paintings until today, the artist has evolved her work using the same philosophical outlook and with the same motivation, changing it in style and exploring the painting medium by combining the influences of different art periods that she successfully adjusts to her own spirit and inspiration found within.

2012 Koraljka Alavanja