Victoria Kudryavtseva

My name is Victoria Kudryavtseva, I am engaged in artistic ceramics and painting on natural silk and cotton (batik). My creativity is a very exciting process to me! It’s like magic, when the white material begins to live and glow in my works and emotions.

My creativity is very diverse, I paint all types of batik; cold, hot and batik in watercolor technique. My creativity serves as a means of self-expression and a way of communicating with the world and people around me. I graduated from an art college, but for 25 years art was a hobby for me, I devoted a lot of time to other things and responsibilities, but at the same time I always painted pictures, created interior items and works of art on silk.

10 years ago, I rethought my attitude to my art and devoted all my time to creativity and self-presentation. I became a full-time artist, every day, seven days a week. When I paint silk, I pay attention to small details: how the tube of reserve passes over uneven areas of silk, how the paint spreads on the fabric. I love to watch white silk become multi-colored. I love to immerse myself in extremely complex work, so that everything around me ceases to exist, only me and my art.

Ideas come from everywhere. It happens that I saw a picture and it inspired me. Or I painted a scarf and liked the intermediate stage. I remembered this step and then reproduced it as the main drawing. And then one day I took a photo of the seashore and after a few days I realized that this was a ready-made design that would look great on fabric. And it worked! You can paint anything on silk, there are no restrictions.

I like to change the standard batik painting. Thanks to my extensive artistic experience and many years of practice, I have developed an individual artistic technique of painting on silk. I like to create paintings on complex spiritual and moral themes, combining decorative and applied art and thematic paintings that change the direction of standards in the technique of painting fabric.
I am very interested in thematic competitions on given topics, in which I present a separate representative in this technique; This is quite a complex and large-scale task that allows you to change the standard idea of a drawing on silk, which makes it possible to introduce the viewer to this type of art.

At the moment, I am a participant and winner of more than 20 exhibitions, auctions and competitions in Europe and the USA; Most of my works are stored in private collections. This gives me a great incentive to create new projects. •

Kudryavtseva Victoria
Artist-decorator
Email: kakiv77@gmail.com