Winter 2025 Artwork History

I have been meaning to write this story for a long time, but I had little time to sit down at the computer. Today I chose a few hours to pay attention to you and write down this story. And all this is winter 2024-2025. I had many changes in work, stopped working in a public organization, switched to a more creative artistic focus and opened my archives to see what I am most successful at ,what I am bad at.

There is snow outside, cleaning every day. It is cold and most importantly, cloudy, absolutely no sun. I live in the northern part, in the northernmost country, although in its southernmost city, but the sun is not a frequent guest here in the middle of winter.
My works are most recognized among artists and it has become established for me that I can show winter beautifully.
For paintings created in different years, I received many prizes and titles specifically for winter landscapes.
To speed up and warm up, I created the first two landscapes.
For me, they are the same, in motive. As a creator, I played with shades and I succeeded.
The size of the paintings is 5 x 7, created with acrylic on canvas.

Here the snow cover is not deep and the river has not frozen yet. It was interesting to draw each bush of the plant, each leaf of the tree and grass.
It was immediately taken away.
The second one is more monochromatic, it is already a slightly different time of winter, the snow is like glass, the plants are frozen and icy. A little fog at such a time. The river has merged in tone with the sky.
This painting was not taken away.

It remained. And I wanted to draw something from the winter landscape again.
Then I decided not to stop, to create more and this painting turned out.

I decided to create a painting right after the icing. Forest. Trees were damaged, broken tree branches. And to mark, highlight it in red. That’s how this painting came about.Ppainting’s size 10x 8.Acrylic on canvas.
As soon as I showed it, it was immediately taken away. It didn’t stay in my gallery for long.

And I put my work aside, because outside the window there was everything that created material for my creativity.
And here is this painting, soft fluffy snow on a large semi-field near a farmhouse. A small path that leads to the house, freshly trampled by people.
The turning point was a trip during a snowfall to the north, to Huronia.

It was after this trip that I realized that we are lucky, Toronto residents. It snowed, we raked it out, removed the cars and now we are running around in puddles again. And all the people to the north, west and east of us – there they stock up on food and firewood in the fall and during snowstorms they dig small paths, leaving cars and fields under the snow until better weather. That’s just our weather.
The painting is 10 x 8,acrylic on canvas and again flew to its buyer.

And I was left with one work, as a memory of these works.

This artwork had been lying around for a long time, it ended up on sale at Saatchi and was selected for an exhibition in Etobicoke. The ice storm in this painting was just too realistic.

July came, hot, intense and active. I met with Hatcher and this painting, my last masterpiece of this winter collection, went to her collection.

7 x 5 acrylic on canvas.

The entire winter collection was sold out.
I was left with photos of the works and pleasant memories of winter.
After all, not everything should be gray and sad.
Although later there were serious health problems, but even now, remembering, I smile.
My works flew away from me.
How wonderful it is.
I was left with my inspiration and strength for the next collection

Continuation

How to describe the period from February 13 to 18, 2025. Toronto. Canada?
In a word – it continues.
There is little joy in the city from the snow, everything is buried in solid snowdrifts. Even cars did not rise to shovel them on Sunday. If the weather spoils us and more snow falls this week, then even a very active snow digger will give up from the impossibility of clearing the paths. On the night from Sunday to Monday, some crazy guys decided to drive along an uncleaned street. It all ended with one in a pickup truck flying up a mountain of snow across the road, breaking all the cables and scattering parts of the car. Removing it was also problematic, since it is difficult for cars to leave and arrive at the location. And at that moment I noticed that the cars were driving carefully along the open lane. And not one, not one stopped to help remove the moron from the hill!
We must understand the harsh, specific character of our inhabitants.

Then a gusty wind blew and a small plane at the airport landed on the roof, flipping over and breaking its wings. How can they allow landings in such weather? And perhaps this is not the best time for flights.
But today the sun is shining blindingly, cold, provocative. We fed the sparrows that spend the winter in our trees. The birds pounced on the food, not even waiting for us to move away. They already trust us. Weather-tested))

I am disabled in one eye, I am trying to pull myself out of idleness and painted.
All the critics around me, discussing my work, say that I am great at landscapes. Winter ones, for example.
So I am trying.
I want to sweeten my condition with something.
I am giving you a new work – Winter landscape
You will see from it how much I miss painting with oil paints.
Still, oil cannot be replaced by acrylic. And in the summer, when there is an opportunity to paint with oil paints in the open air, I will return to my favorite technique.
In the meantime, for you – winter landscape

Size:7 ”x5

Acrylic on canvas

Feb 2025

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