Lena Sotskova is a
representative of Russian classical art.
She creates paintings of
contemporary themes and subjects using old masters techniques
and methods, achieving their balance and completeness.
Sotskova spent over
20 years of extensive rigorous training with world class
masters. She did restoration work in palaces and cathedrals of
Moscow and St. Petersburg; The Hermitage, The Louvre, Russian
state museum, Tretiakov Gallery, Kremlin.
Lena Sotskova spends
from 1 to 3 month on each oil on canvas painting.
“Leonardo
da Vinci Award 2009”For high-level artistic skills,
cultural engagement in World Modern Art through national and
international publications. Brindisi,
Italy.
“International
Human Rights Award 2009”To the personages of Art,
Science and Culture for promoting with their work high moral
values and raising of the highest life ideals at
international level.
International
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary ArtPage 231, 2007.
“Oscar
della Cultura”Florence,
Italy, 2007
“Premio
Alba 2007”,
Diploma di MeritoFerrara,
Italy.
Professor, AcademicianInternational “Greci-Marino” Academy,
2006.
One of today’s most acclaimed painters with many
international awards and titles, Lena Sotskova remains an openhearted and very
friendly person.
You will be charmed by her humor & humble approach to her
success as a contemporary icon on the global art market.
Charles Halpin,
Art critic
Besides their decorative qualities, paintings of Lena
Sotskova
possess high magnetism, energy and power. Not everyone can perceive
them; the spectator’s spiritual level should be well above average in
order to see those qualities in her work.
Art Shevtsov,
Musician
When after a period of time I come back to look at
Lena’s painting, which seemed familiar before, I catch myself noticing
something new in it, things that somehow escaped my perception before.
This is their exoteric quality: the phenomenon of presence of hidden
spiritual layers, which reveal themselves to a person gradually, with
one’s spiritual growth; to some people they remain hidden forever.
Alexander Vaksian
Writer, Philosopher
How
would you describe your unique art style? How did you arrive at
that style (or how did you evolve to develop that style?)
I would say
that art styles affiliation is very approximate or conditional.
My art style combines elements of Florentine school
of Renaissance, Academic art and Romanticism of early 1800s. During my life in arts I
tried myriad styles and techniques before arriving to this one.
It is combination of my love for experimenting with texture and
working with sketches. As a result, light image appears on
canvas, like if it was created in a single breath with strong
“realism” elements that gradually dissolving into a texture. I
don’t want to go too technical here; my previous styles and
their evolution can be seen in a book about my art “Two passions
of Lena Sotskova”.
The thing is,
I am lucky to have a really good art education that includes
deep studies of world art styles and techniques, work around the
clock with masters of painting, years of restoration work,
studies of every muscle of human body in morgue (they cut actual
corpses before my eyes); that’s why I don’t need models for my
paintings. So, I guess, my style is a result of all that.
Lena Sotskova
From interview to Art Business News
When I look at paintings of Lena Sotskova, they magnetize me, give me
chills, and don’t let me go. At times I simply loose track of time and
space while standing in front of her paintings. Problems and issues that
seemed of primary importance just moments ago, move into the background
and cease to be ‘so important’.
Anna Artomova,
Artist
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