Olga Manilov

experimental painting

My art story is just beginning. I've been a creative person since childhood, but I had no intention of becoming an artist and my profession is far removed from art...

A few years ago, I realised that I wanted to get to grips with painting intensively. I attended workshops and online courses from various artists and tried out several techniques.

At the centre of my creations is a love of experimenting with different materials. The interesting thing is the intolerance of these. Extraordinary textures are created on the surface that are almost impossible to paint on purpose. I use natural materials such as marble powder, limestone, sand, champagne chalk, shellac, natural pigments and many others. Each of them has its own character and lives by its own rules, which I have to accept.

Without planning the composition of the picture, I let myself be guided by intuition and join the creative process - time and space no longer play a role. The exciting thing is the unpredictable - everything is not as it seems and everything is possible.

I can't say whether my work can be described as art. For me, art is only created when the viewer embarks on a journey across a haptic surface, discovers forms that awaken their personal emotions and remains speechless for a moment.