Rumyantseva Elena

Rumyantseva Elena\Resea - from 2020\.


I was born in USSR officer’s family in Priozersk, on the shores of Lake Balkhash, in a city surrounded by a desert, which had not previously been on world maps.
I have been living in St. Petersburg since 1993. I have two higher education institution diplomas, SZSTU and St. Petersburg GASU. Earlier I used to be known for my still life paintings and allegorical illustrations in the dry pastel technique.

In my art I have developed my own technique. A distinctive feature of my style is the use of texture pastes, acrylic paints, sometimes stained glass contours along the canvas and cardboard, with the preservation of refined relief in the paintings. I am mainly engaged in allegorical art, but among my artworks there are sketches of nature, plants, portraits of children, etc.

What is my art about? About observations of the world, nature, events. About getting to know yourself through the world around you, and the world around you through yourself, about expressing emotions through creativity and states, about resolving questions.

My work was not influenced by schools or institutes of painting, my mind was too enquiring and my character was too stubborn. I remember in my childhood I quite often got from teachers for being left-handed, but I still paint with my left hand.

I have been painting a lot and regularly since 2013, painting has become the main activity since 2020. I rarely look at the finished art of other artists in recent years, my ideas are born intuitively. However, even now I continue to attend art workshops, get acquainted with new techniques and experiment with materials.

Among my art there are paintings in which there are fragments painted with a balloon, thread, cotton sticks and even a toothpick. Experiments for me are a game, and the game is exciting. I'll probably remain being a child for all my life, my curiosity is my everything, sometimes I am so carried away that the family does not understand me. However, there are people who will understand me and my art and will love this world as much as I do.