When I'm not painting, I think about what I want to paint. I don't think about painting only when I paint. At this moment, I seem to fall into meditation, my whole body together with my mind, work as a whole, creating on the canvas a story that arises deep from the subconscious.

GALINA KHABAROVA

This is an absolute synergy with the body. Chord by chord, in time with the rhythm, motion by motion. Complete harmony and unity with yourself.
Acrylic on a high-quality acid-free paper. Coated with an archival-quality protective satin varnish. Image size is 30x21 centimeters.

Acrylic

Acrylic on paper

Painting

This is an absolute synergy with the body. 

Abstract

Contemporary Abstract

This painting is a captured moment of one of my walks, a beautiful bush of flowering wild rose. Whether it grew on its own or someone planted it many years ago is unknown, there are many places in my city that were once someone's gardens. It doesn't matter, it's important that I found it during my trip and remembered it so that I could create this painting later.

Acrylic on canvas

Acrylic on Linen

Gesso

Expression

Floral

Nature

Wildflowers

Abstract Landscape

Have you ever woken up in the mountains a few minutes before dawn? The impenetrable blackness around you is suddenly replaced by a faint glimmer of the newborn day, as if someone is gradually turning the brightness knob on an old TV. And in the predawn gloom the peaks of the mountains stand out against the pink and purple sky, while in the valley before you the grey mist is still slowly swirling.

Paper

Have you ever woken up in the mountains a few minutes before dawn?

Landscape

Mountainous Landscape

Coexistence (composition №39)

I have one fantasy – I want to be good for everyone. And it's a pity this is not possible.

Acrylic on paper. Painted with a plastic card. Coated with an archival-quality protective satin varnish. The work is painted on a high-quality paper for acrylics. Image size is 21x30 centimeters.

Minimalistic

A Sleep in the midsummer night brings strange dreams and visions. Some you like and the others — don't. And there is nothing can be done with that, until the heat will end.

A Sleep in the midsummer night brings strange dreams and visions.

Abstract Nature

Flowers

Night

Stars

Drowning in autumn foliage which red and orange spots illuminate the dark green grass, the park is open to visitors. The warm wind blows away the rustle of leaves under their feet as they silently contemplate the riot of colors around them.

Expressionist Landscape

Contemporary

Forest

Russian expression "white crow" (the closest idiom in English is "the odd man out") doesn’t work now: crows can fly and, in general, are free creatures, whether black or white. But chained to their gadgets and tightly packed in social networks people are more like a poultry yard, from where you can always fly away, but no one does it. Therefore, there are not crows here, but cute chickens walking around the poultry house. And one of them seemed to understand something and spread the wings.

Modern society entangled with social networks is like a poultry yard.

Patterns

Social

Bird

Animals

Girl (composition №108)

Portrait of a girl with freckles.

Acrylic on linen canvas. Coated with an archival-quality protective satin varnish. Mounted on a stretcher frame. Sides are painted.

Impasto

Texture

Canvas

Abstract portrait of a girl with freckles.

People

Portrait

Female

Woman

Abstract Figure

Dive (composition №85)

Dive into the environment. It can be very scary to take the first step, this seemingly simple action takes a lot of time, but as soon as you take a step, the reality changes, the environment changes. You change in the end. And the deeper the plunge, the more global the changes around.

Linen canvas and acrylic paints. Coated with an archival-quality protective satin varnish. Mounted on a stretcher frame. Sides are painted.

GALINA KHABAROVA

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