Natalia Ostapenko easily declines the margins between figuration and abstraction: her canvases can be figurative, like Free Fall, they can inject a touch of abstraction into figuration, like with this blue circle in In Doubt, they can also be very geometric, while keeping a very precise subject (Aurora).
This facility, the artist, who lives today in the North of France, attributes it to an artistic journey started in his childhood and continued at the Beaux-Arts in Kiev: “My long apprenticeship in art allowed to master a range of techniques in which I draw according to my needs and desires ”. The artist is inspired by what she sees, subjects or harmonies of color: “It can be an assortment of colors or letters on a poster, the play of light in a film scene, the way of dressing. of a passerby in front of my studio ”.
Today, Nataliia Ostapenko focuses on a geometric approach to subjects. “I have very often represented nature but most of the time following a realistic or impressionist approach. Today, it's the opposite, I bring nature through my artistic prism to restore it in a minimalist but stylized way. It is ultimately a logical outcome: knowing things completely before putting your personal touch to it ”.
Anne Devailly
