Elena Bondar

Colors And Shapes Inspire Me...

Honestly, I’ve always found the world a touch too restrained; it insists on things being one thing, in one specific place. So, naturally, I flee straight to the canvas. What truly kicks my oil painting into gear isn’t some grand philosophical concept—it’s the sheer, unadulterated audacity of colour and shape, the way a brutal, crimson block can sit right beside a nervous patch of pale yellow. I’m utterly captivated by the simple, profound geometry of life—the sharp shadow of a rooftop against a blazing sky, or the soft, ridiculous curve of a familiar bowl.

My practice is less about slavishly copying the view and more about taking that visual information, giving it a good shake, and letting the pigment decide where it wants to land. The moment a shade of ochre accidentally clashes perfectly with a square of cobalt, that’s my cue; that’s the little, witty irony that compels me to paint. I suppose I’m just trying to capture the world’s underlying, glorious structural chaos, one expressive brushstroke at a time.

Welcome To My Website

As an artist, the assumption is that one will have a spectacularly curated, achingly cool online presence, but as you can clearly see, I’ve mostly just managed to put something together that works. Look, if I had the time to polish every digital corner of this site, I’d probably be busy polishing an actual piece of art instead, wouldn’t I? So, here we are. Consider this the digital equivalent of my chaotic studio: a glorious mess, where the paint might be a bit dried out and the coffee rings are certainly permanent, but where the sparks of genuinely interesting work are definitely (and sometimes haphazardly) strewn about.

Do stick around, have a good root through the galleries, and perhaps contemplate the sheer irony of a creative person trying to organise their existence into neat little tabs. What could possibly go wrong?