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The Color and Line.

In my painting I look for the expression of beauty.
When see that causes the sensation of the beauty and harmonies this attracts and inspires.
Since childhood I love to observe motion in nature. Hour upon hour I can sit by a tree, beside a ravine, meeting the first rays of sun and accompanying ribbons of the mist slowly crawling away on a grass.

Harmony of the woman’s body line, harmony in landscape, still life. The Color and Line, this magic gives me inspiration.
Transport this feeling of harmony on the canvas – is my goal. The Pictures often come to me in night dreams, combination of color, composition is all so real, it is necessary only to have time to sketch it before image disappear in the day’s reality.

The Color and Line.

In my painting I am inspired by the sensation of the beauty and harmony and always seek the expression which recreates these attributes.

From childhood till today I loved to observe motion in nature, could hour by hour to sit on tree beside ravine, meeting first rays sun and accompanying ribbons of the mist slowly crawling away from the high grasses of the fields.

Lines and colors form the harmony of the women’s body, the landscape, and the still life. The Color and Line, this magic gives me inspiration and the ability to place this feeling of harmony on the canvas.

Pictures often come to me in night dreams, combination of color and the composition all is so real, it is necessary only to have time to sketch it before image disappears in the daylight.

Dear visitors,

I have something to tell you today. It will be an inside look in the art methods, techniques, that I use.

When Elena, the VIEW gallery manager, asked me to write about my art techniques, I started to panic. 

As much I as I love painting, usually I did not enjoy writing about it. She said that the gallery visitors would love to learn more about the technique the artist uses.

However I will give my best attempt to describe the processes going. Let see how it will go.

I used to paint in the all the possible art and non art materials and also did the huge stain glass projects earlier in Soviet Era in Ukraine.

My first exhibition abroad in Denmark Copenhagen was all in watercolour on paper technique.

Then while living in Prague Czech Republic I completely focused on oil based painting materials.

I used the traditional technique, based on the realism oil painting style, which we have been taught. It was the oil on canvas or card paintings. 

Then I started to develop my own technique which is the combination of the pointed etching needles and oil colours on a special durable card. This give me the great texture of scratched drowning deeply or gently  filled with an oil paint which is contrasting to the oil glossy and smooth card structure. 

I prefer to use the Rembrandt and St Peterborough oils, which are highly transparent and can be layered after they get dry as many times as I need to create special multilayer finish.

The goal is to get the colour layers be translusant and shine through.

For the base before I get to the actual painting, I use a special acrylic ground and number of acrylic texture pastes which I could apply freely by pallet knifes in various ways.

I use a lot of the mix of linen oil with varnish and turpentine oil for dilute the oil paint. This mixture allows the paint not dry so quickly and give time to work with it to adjust when necessary . This give me desired semi covering each other layers of the thin oil paint. 

The painting process is never the same, there is always room for improvisation and experiment with non-traditional materials and instruments.

For example some times I use a sand paper or metal wire brushes to create special effects on the surface of a painting. I used various imprinting effects made by a pressure against the painting surface from shapes in wood or plastic, or in broken glass.

Hope this description can provide a a brief look in to the kitchen of artistic processes.

Please feel free to ask any questions. 

I would gladly answer on all of them.

Kind regards

Oksana Veber

Painting of a portrait of Ante Jasa in Croatia 2008.

Oksana Veber

Born in Altaj region of Russia.
Education: Academy of Fine Arts Kyiv Ukraine, Art College Briansk Russia.
Commercial art experience: Union of Commercial and Industrial Artists - monumental art, stained-glass, and oil painting. Graphic art, including corporate logo designs.

Personal Exhibitions
2019- “Magic Glass“, Museum of Ancient Glass, Zadar, Croatia.
2018- Canvasation, San Francisco, USA.
2018- "Third Dimension Gallery, Kamuela Hawaii Island, USA.
2018- “Vanilla Sky”, Gallery Dom na Zalu, Pucko Otvoreno Uciliste, Preko, Croatia.
2017- “Reflections”, Gallery Dom na Zalu, Pucko Otvoreno Uciliste, Preko, Croatia.
2017- “FRAGMENTS” VIEW gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2016- “Art show” Collection, Zelena Punta, Kukljica, Croatia.
2014- “Paintings Collection“, Zelena Punta, Kukljica, Croatia.
2012- “Sea Songs“, Prachen Museum, Pisek, Czech Republic.
2012- "MK Arts for Health" Personal Exhibition, MK Hospital Foyer, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
2011- Sea dream, Gallery Dom na Zalu, Pucko Otvoreno Uciliste, Preko, Croatia.
2009- Shadow dance, Museum of Ancient Glass, Zadar, Croatia.
2009- Portus Gallery, Pisek, Czech Republic.
2007-2009 - Acorn Galleries Billingshurst West Sussex, Room № 9 Gallery Eastbourne, East Sussex, England.
2007- Voshan Gallery, Palo Alto, San Francisco, USA.
2004- '' ART Show''- Municipal Gallery Teplice, ''Modern Russian Art'' Fusion Center
Gallery TopLil Prague, CZ. ''Cotrexeville a l’’heure russe'' Russian Culture center Cotrexeville,
''ART Veber'' Gallery ART Shaker, Paris, France.
2003- ''Four Seasons'' Artmaster gallery, Prague Czech Republic, ''The Song of Sun'', Gallery Etienne de Causans, Paris France.
2002- ''Gleaming Summer'' American Embassy in Kyiv,
''A Different Way of Seeing'' ARTEast Gallery , Kiev, Ukraine.
2001- ''Vernissage'', Gallery of Russian Cultural Center, Copenhagen, ''Soul Mates'', Municipal Gallery, Espegarden, Denmark.
1999- ''Morning'', Art Cafe, Prague, ''Ingle-Side'', Tabor's Municipal Gallery, Czech Republic.
1997- ''Self-Portrait'', Municipal Gallery of Slavutich, Ukraine.

Group Exhibitions
2018- “Fantasy Portraits”, Third Dimension Gallery, Kamuela, Hawaii, USA.
2016- “ART Show 2016” RISE ART, London, United Kingdom.
2015- “Waterloo Zeitgeist 2015” Waterloo Action Centre, London, United Kingdom.
2014- Group Exhibition, W3 Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2013- "Into summer” Group Exhibition, CO Gallery, Iklin, Malta.
2013- "The Gender Agenda” Group Exhibition, W3 Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2012- Edinburgh Art Fair 2012, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2012- Affordable Art Fair Roma 2012, Roma, Italy.
2012- "Drawing project” Group Exhibition, Crocus Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
2012- "Papergirl” Group Exhibition, Marburae Gallery, Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
2012- "Abstracted” Group Exhibition, Marburae Gallery, Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
2012- "Rising Stars” Group Exhibition, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, United Kingdom.
2012- "An Ideal Soup” Group Exhibition, Brent Artist Resource Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2012- "Willesden show” Group Exhibition, Harlesden Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2012- "Mull it over” Group Exhibition, Gallery Brighton, United Kingdom.
2011- "Women in Art” Group Exhibition, SO Galerie, Iklin, Malta.
2009- "The Sound of Art", Falconer Center, Copenhagen, Denmark,
2009- "Calling all artists 2009", Carshalton Honeywood Museum, London, England.
2008- "Conversing in color", Rozanoff Art gallery, San Francisco, USA.
2007- ''ART Exhibition”, Multimedia Culture Centre, Kukljica, Croatia
2007- ''Summer 2007'', International Art workshop, Balcik, Bulgaria,
2007- ''Art Winter 2007'', Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2007- ''ART Show''- Berlin, Germany.
2006-2007- ''Jadertina''- International Art workshop, Kukljica, Croatia.
2005-2007- ''Art Ireland Spring Collection'', ‘‘Art Ireland Winter'', ''Art Ireland Summer Collection''
- Dublin, Ireland.
2005- ‘‘Dreams about Don Quixote'' Prague, Czech Republic and Barcelona, Spain.
2005- ''ART Show''- Hilton foyer, Malta.
2004 - ''Contemporary Art'' - Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2004- ''Les peintres de Russie'' - Le Consulat General de Russie de Strasbourg, France.
1997-1998- ''Ukrainian Women as Great Artists'', Laura Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
1987-1992- 1996- 1997- ''Picturesque Ukraine'' - Autumn Art Exhibition, Artist Hays, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Galleries:
Czech Republic, Prague: ''Michalska 11'', ''Artmaster'', ''Godot'', ''ArtKarlstejn''.
France, Paris: ''ART Shaker''',
England: “View Gallery'', ''Room № 9, ''Harlesden Gallery'', ''The Marylebone Gallery'', ''W3 Gallery''.
USA, Hawaii, Kamuela "Third Dimension Gallery"
USA, California, San Francisco "Canvasations Gallery".
tel: +447930445801, e-mail: o_veber@yahoo.com, www.veberoksana.com

The Summer Is Not Yet Over.

Skirting August 17 and running through October 17, AmCham in association with the ARTEast gallery will be hosting a new art exhibition entitled "Gleaming Summer" by Oksana Veber. Oksana Veber was born March 31, 1967 in Barnaul, Russia, in the Altaj Region. At 9 she moved with her tamily to Chernihiv, Ukraine where she lived until entering an art college in Briansk, Russia at 15. She would have continued her education in art in Moscow, but after the Chernobyl disaster in 1989 she returned to her home in Ukraine out of concern for her family. Oksana studied at the Kyiv Art Academy from 1989-1992 but never graduated because of the birth of her son.
Oksana has been drawing for as long as she can remember. After receiving her education in art, Veber has done a variety of jobs from making stained-glass window to working in computer design. She has participating in exhibitions since 1987, but only over the past 5 years has she been become more actively involved in such activity, as well as holding personal exhibitions in Kyiv, Prague, and Denmark. Works of this young artist can already be found in prestigious galleries in Kyiv and Prague and private collections in many countries including the USA, Germany, France, Italy, and South Africa.
Oksana's painting style has undergone quite a transformation over the years. Her first paintings were landscapes. During this period her works reflect her fascination with Daocism and other Eastern philosophical ideas with themes such as peace, harmony, and emptiness. Oksana Veber's later works convey the same ideas but through her portrayal of women. These charming paintings convey a warm and positive mood. The artist's use of subtle colors ranging from warm wood to gold and glimmering coppers creates quite a sensual aura.
Despite her fruitful career as an artist, it seems that Oksana is only beginning to realize her creative potential. The time she spent in Prague, the past four years spent as a student of psychology, and interaction with different artists and their works have greatly inspired her to explore new themes through her paintings and develop as a person. Veber is planning to open personal exhibitions first in Ukraine and then in other countries of Europe on human interaction and its transforming effect on the person.

Croatia outdoors painting in Zelena Punta, Island Ugljan.

The dance of shadows

There are different sources on which we feed in our quest for peace, equivalence and harmony. Artist Oksana Veber founds harmony in the beauty of the landscape, still life, woman's face, which, transferred into the harmony of colors and forms continue they life in art work. Guiding her through the need for equivalence and exploring themes like peace, harmony and emptiness, the artist – influenced by the ideas of Taoism and Eastern philosophy - transferred her longing and revelation on the canvas. From her first works to the present days she developed her work relayed on that same philosophical thought, developing her work by changing it through different styles and exploring the medium of painting and yet modulating it according to her spirit and inspiration she founds inside herself. Female portrait is main motive in most of the paintings. It is usually shown as sensual figure, with full lips, almond eyes, and slightly tipped head, that leads us in world of dreams and fairytales. Two paths lead us when we follow this mystic. One has roots are in Jugendstil (Art Noveau) and further in art of Japan that was inspiration to Jugendstil, and in Russian fairytales that we can find in work of Chagall, and the other in tendency toward harmony in choosing colors that evoke Kandinsky and Marc. Artist settles her characters on the background defined with colorist effects, that are, unlike in her early works when they were much expressive and with vivid tones, tranquil and given in pastel tones of blue-gray combination and beige in gradations. Colors, painted in wide brush-strokes combine anintrusivly and melt one in another, making abstraction that in some works could be defined piece in manner of abstract expressionism. On that background painter successfully adds figuration with tiny, playful black lines that give sparkle to meditative tranquility of background and open space to a new story. Much more than in early works now appear double portraits or even more characters on one painting. To former motifs of landscapes and dreamy female figures author adds new inspiration – motif of birds, fishes, music instruments and pottery that she brings in correlation with main subject. She paints them like the main motif with the same, almost calligraphic, brush-strokes and intensifies some silhouettes fulfilling them with color. In adding those motives, although they bring their own poetry, we can feel transfer to greater opening to the world. Now characters are not so alone, closed up in their dreams and wrapped in shroud of mystic, on contrary, they have opened path forward observer through subtle communication with objects it is surrounded with.
Koraljka Alavanja October 2010
„Shadow dance“, Antic Glass museum Zadar, Zadar, Wednesday, 25. November 2009