Elena Myasnikova
Elena Myasnikova is a Canadian Artist with roots from Russia and Ukraine. She is a graduate from the Benkov Art Academy (Uzbekistan), with a major in Applied Art. After her graduation, Elena Myasnikova spent few years working for a number of theatres as a Stage and Costume Artist/Designer. Through her professional career, Elena is constantly developing pieces of fine art, in which through the years, she would create her unique artistic styles and techniques.
Elena is known for a diversity of art forms and the impressive number of media variety she applies to her works. The Artist is currently residing in Calgary, Alberta, in the land of The Majestic Rockies.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
“In Art, I create complexity of feelings through a simple subject matter. It is poetry in colours and textures. I create spaces where one can wander slowly among silhouettes and shapes, forgetting about the world’s fast beat for a while. Nature is my forever muse and inspiration, as an Artist, I can’t express myself better than in Her language.”
Elena Myasnikova is a Canadian Artist with roots from Russia and Ukraine. She is a graduate from the Benkov Art Academy (Uzbekistan), with a major in Applied Art. After her graduation, Elena Myasnikova spent few years working for a number of theatres as a Stage and Costume Artist/Designer. Through her professional career, Elena is constantly developing pieces of fine art, in which through the years, she would create her unique artistic styles and techniques.
Elena is known for a diversity of art forms and the impressive number of media variety she applies to her works. The Artist is currently residing in Calgary, Alberta, in the land of The Majestic Rockies.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
“In Art, I create complexity of feelings through a simple subject matter. It is poetry in colours and textures. I create spaces where one can wander slowly among silhouettes and shapes, forgetting about the world’s fast beat for a while. Nature is my forever muse and inspiration, as an Artist, I can’t express myself better than in Her language.”
$5,200.00
Acrylic and resin on canvas.
23.50x48"
"I love you for your delicacy
Enthralling my soul with sheer ecstasy
I hear something that you whisper
Very benignly in my ear!"
Anonymous
$5,800.00
Acrylic and resin on canvas.
48x30"
"Thoughts.... So very many of them, they are running through, inside and out like hi-speed trains. Sometimes they cripple and puzzle mind and start their complicated dances. Trying finding their loose ends or beginnings almost impossible. They are bright and dull, colorful and translucent, they are provocative and calming, each of them radiates its own light and energy. They could create a beautiful shawl if you could use them as yarn. But before, they need to be untangled and unraveled "
$3,800.00
Acrylic and resin on canvas.
24x35.50"
"When I was little, I loved to play with other kids in the garden creating little hidden treasures and hiding them in the dirt. We would use little pieces of broken glass, layering them with some colorful shiny objects (as chocolate wrap) at the inner side of the glass and bury those in soil all over the garden. Then we would look for the hidden pieces and carefully wash away top soil layer, exposing shiny glass with hidden object inside.
I always had a thrill while playing that game and I would always remember those memories many years later. It felt magical - to create a little glass window in dirt with something shiny and precious hidden inside..."
$5,800.00
Acrylic on wood.
48x48"
When you are experiencing humbling change and feeling resistless to what you are becoming... When petals of your soul start trembling through this metamorphic changes and you become lighter, softer and more intuitive to your surroundings.... You are becoming the new beginning, the new extension to your greater one, the one who knows how to live with love for yourself"
$7,000.00
Acrylic and wood on canvas.
36x48"
"It's All In Us"
("When Earth Calls" series)
In this series, I voice my feelings and thoughts on nature awareness, on the human/nature complicated relationship of connection and rejection. Incorporating earthy elements in this series, (such as wood and stones, along with man-made materials), my intention is to create a family of abstract pieces, rich in texture and deep earthy colours.
About this work
We try to be closer to nature today, we actively go to the woods to hug trees, to lakes and seas to enjoy sunsets. We like to surround ourselves with more nature, more eco-friendly products. We like to think that we are not completely ignorant on this topic, we admit our knowledge in nature and climate related issues. But we prefer life of overproduction, overconsumption, contamination and distraction.
Why we started loving what destroys us?
How we started abusing what creates and cares for us?
$5,800.00
Acrylic on wood.
48x23.50"
From the Artist:
"Sleepy horses...what their dreams are about? Snuggled and cuddled in a twighlight haze, they sleepily shake their heads and listen to the whispers of distant stars..."
$4,200.00
Acrylic on wood panel.
15.70x63.70"
Flowers are like nothing else remind me of us, they remind of how beautiful, fragile and short our journeys are
$5,800.00
Acrylic on wood.
48x48"
Years ago during snorkelling in Mexico I had a unique chance of witnessing circling school of fish in the water. I was stunned by the captivating movement of hundreds of silver fishes, they were just going around and around and around in their amazing nirvana dance...I was watching them for what seemed like ages, hypnotized. They were one whole moving force, powerful and fragile, all as one following this invisible line, creating a perfection in their performance.
$5,800.00
Acrylic on wood.
36x48"
When I work with trees in my artworks, they have the power to take me to amazing places of creation. They inspire me to see the world through the kaleidoscope prism of beauty and magic.
$3,200.00
Acrylic on canvas.
16x40"
Stop and listen...listen to beauty. It is everywhere around you, you just need to pause and to notice it
$5,800.00
Acrylic on wood.
85.30x33"
I was dreaming of blue mountains...
$2,200.00
Acrylic on canvas.
30x24"
"Entering the colour world", is a series of paintings where the emphasis is made mainly on colour. I, as an artist, usually do not use a wide color palette in one work, most of my works are created in a chrome restrained manner, mostly in a monochromatic style, where shades and tones prevail over open colors. In the group of these works, my desire and focus were on a bright, lifeful palette, juicy and deep colors. A new style of broad stroke emerged during the work on this series.