About me

 

My creative way began rather long time ago, back at school times. My heart was searching for love but what is love like in this world? With quiet and unconfident steps my searches led me to the art workshop where I learned the basics of art.

It was like a déjà vu, as if I had experienced it somewhere some time earlier. Feeling delighted and awed at this stage I created copies of Renaissance artists and studied nature. Works of Sandro Botticelli still have been an infinite source of inspiration and love for me.

At a certain stage I realized that my life was inseparably connected to art  - creative activity fills me so deep with breath of life that I want to share this feeling of fullness with everybody! That way I came to teaching visual art, having accordingly graduated the department at University of Latvia.

Later there were years of working at schools with young children and teenagers of different ages and then I became a mother myself! Oh, that was wonderful and difficult at the same time! Children appear in order to change their parents’ world, to transform, to breathe in freshness in their routine life. The same happened to me – my son’s development peculiarities forced me to look into the area of art therapy.

That was when I got acquainted with ebru, a totally unique technique of drawing on water. Ebru is a traditional Turkish art with a vast quantity of interesting styles and directions. However, for me the drawing on water is, first of all, a process which brings emotions and feelings in balance and heals a soul.

My artistic manner has changed greatly, the mixture of techniques has always inspired me and been an impulse for creating unique pieces of art. In this perspective my inspirations are Gustav Klimt, Mikhail Vrubel, Vincent Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo. From contemporary masters of ebru I would name Attila Khan  and Garip Ay.

At the moment I am drawing different plots on the surface of water – flowers, ornaments, abstract cosmic fantasies, landscapes…  I love landscapes on water more than other motives. The world of nature is alive, moving, and ever changing just like water. That is why depicting nature turns out to be the most harmonic and alive, you can feel the slightest movement of the wind, a breath of freshness.

Now I have my own small studio of drawing on water where I share my discoveries in this technique with children. We make original gifts, such as cards, decoration paper and paintings on water. With a group of like-minded people we regularly display our works in our city, Riga, where there are many wonderful talented people.Each drawing created on water is a unique and exclusive piece. Sometimes you have to repeat one and the same motive again and again in order to get one interesting work. Ebru is always an experiment, with always unpredictable result and it is a pure happiness when you succeed to fix those slipping away feelings expressed through the dancing colours on paper.

It has been an honour for us to display our works twice at the premises of Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Riga. I am happy to know that popularity of drawing on water is growing and more people are learning not only about artistic opportunities of this technique but also about its healing effect on a human soul. The drawings created on water and then transported on paper or canvas are capable to change and put the energy of space in harmony through the eye of the beholder.