What do I feel when I draw? Something… or Everything. And when I finish the drawing the most important thing for me is to show, to open it to the audience. And then I feel gratification for being an artist. What’s next? I just lose interest. Sure, I remember all my drawings, but it’s the process of creation and presentation, that’s meaningful.
| I am a Russian woman. I never studied art before. And I could draw only when I arrived in US. I drew as self-taught artist, but later on I decided to take classes and to improve.
I started my art career at Loudoun campus at NOVA. My teacher is Donald Depuydt. He is a really amazing artist and teacher. Actually, he isn’t just a usual teacher, but he is my connector to the world of art. Art for me is more than just fun, it’s my life style. It’s a huge power which gives me more space. There is one more person, really first-first, teacher of mine. My lovely husband – Victor Ronin. It’s he who gave me a gift for my birthday – a set of painting tools. And I am grateful that through this gift I’ve become an artist now. |
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| I live, I love, I believe and suffer. I look at everything like an outsider. I find some ideas in my soul, when I feel… I see dreams, ideas and inlay them in the art works.
How do I choose a media? I just feel… oil or charcoal or… it doesn’t matter. The soul and hands decide on they own what to use. Why do I do this? It’s my existent life. It’s really hard to extract emotions and life vision from the soul, but it’s a goal, it’s a life, it’s my life. As most of other artists, I am shy to show my works… Hesitancy… However, it’s so important, for me, to be able to show my inner turmoil, feelings, vision of the world, environment to others. Just to give, to show to a viewer, a human, an admirer, an appreciator of the art, who wants to see a life and external world through somebody else eyes and soul. My consciousness and subconsciousness works together, when I create my art. The soul cries, cheers and believes. All of these is mixed in my works. My hands channel it’s all from my soul. I use the oil, my one of favorite medias, because it’s endless for the creation. I use not only brushes, but my bare hands when I paint with oil. I just need to feel it physically – the oil on the fingers. And stroke of a hand, flight of the soul – it all comes together. It’s hard to complete the work. It’s like a movement of the air – some cold wave, some hot wave and some mixed one. It’s like a color – white, black, gray. It’s like a music – soft, loud, too loud, creepy, sonant. And all of this sounds as a notes, only in art. The core, the goal, the stem of the life, feelings, emotions – that’s all hard to express in words and it’s all in my works. |
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You can contact me at helen.ronina@gmail.com.