Location: Canada
Elena Myasnikova is a Canadian artist who has exhibited both nationally and in the United States. Her works have become more philosophical with time, allowing for pronounced simplicity in composition. She tells a story through her works, though it is not always evident to the viewer. Myasnikova’s style combines elements of abstract, conceptional, impressionist and mixed media. She uses acrylic, pastel and resin in multiple layers to build depth in her creations.
Elena Myasnikova started her growth in Art in her late teens. She holds BFA (from Russia) and Fashion Design diploma (from Canada). At the beginning of her professional career her Art studies focused primarily on Stage and Theater Costume Design. However Fine Art was always playing an important role in the Artist's life and Elena was mastering different painting / graphic techniques through her professional years.
Elena's Art vary in styles, she expresses herself in expressionism, abstract and figurative detailed works with lavish embellishments.
Currently Artist is residing in Calgary, Alberta, in the land of majestic Rockies.
Artist is represented by Try it Art Gallery, Bragg Creek, AB
Recent exhibitions:
"Winter Solstice - Celebration of Art", art exhibition in Bragg Creek, AB, Canada. Try it Art / Gallery 44 (December 2019)
"Raw Artists" show, Calgary, AB, Canada. (October 2019)
"Calgary Art show" art exhibition in Calgary, AB, Canada. Try it Art Gallery (September 2019)
“Taste of the World” art exhibition in San Francisco, CA, USA. Back to the picture Gallery (June - August 2019)
"Spring Art show" art exhibition in Bragg Creek, AB, Canada. Try it art Gallery (May 2019)
« "I paint my feelings and my thoughts through pensive elegance. Coding through colours and shapes, they become the real existence of my Artist's soul." »
When you are experiencing humbling change and feeling resistless to what you are becoming... When petals of your soul start trembling through this metamorphic changes and you become lighter, softer and more intuitive to your surroundings.... You are becoming the new beginning, the new extension to your greater one, the one who knows how to live with love for yourself.
Media - Acrylic and pencil on wood. Gallery (1.5" / 4 cm) frame
48" x 48" (121 cm x 121 cm)
This work represents conflict of battles, triangle of interests. Three armies, three demons fighting over for power, unwilling to compromise.. Captured in a single linear horse head overlapping with the background - the composition is an intention to marry brutality of fight and fragile side of living being.
Media - Acrylic and pastel on canvas with multiple resin layering, epoxy finish. Gallery (1.5" / 4 cm) frame
40" x 16" (101.5 cm x 40.5 cm)
Time is the most abstract substance. At the same time, it is the most predictable and the most unforeseen media of all. It exists without our desire or control. We try shaping it and to tame it while we exist, it works with or brutally against us. Time owns us at all times, whether we think of it on the long term or in seconds. Time doesn't give in or compromise, it exists even when we think there is no more time.
Media - Acrylic on wood, epoxy finish. Gallery (1.5" / 4 cm) frame
47.75" x 23.5" (121.5 cm x 60 cm)
This work represents literally what it is called. Done with negative white spacing, composition includes multiple vertical blocking of vivid colors, standing out of the white background. White spacing - as a representation of blank and stillness, empty spacing or untouched space – is the surface for lively colorful ideas and possibilities to break through. Although blocks are vivid, they are not meant to create cheerful and scattered emotions. They are well controlled in their relationship within the entire composition, colors are gradually transferring one to another, creating beautiful ombre effect. With sharp contrasting, this work is created to evoke powerful emotional feelings of newness and possibilities, ideas and new being.
Media - Acrylic on canvas with multiple resin layering, epoxy finish. Gallery (1.5" / 4 cm) frame
36" x 36" ( 91.5 cm x 91.5 cm)
When I was little, I loved to play with other kids in the garden creating little hidden treasures and hiding them in the dirt. We would use little pieces of broken glass, layering them with some colorful shiny objects (as chocolate wrap) at the inner side of the glass and bury those in soil all over the garden. Then we would look for the hidden pieces and carefully wash away top soil layer, exposing shiny glass with hidden object inside.
I always had a thrill while playing that game and I would always remember those memories many years later. It felt magical - to create a little glass window in dirt with something shiny and precious hidden inside...
Acrylic on canvas with multiple resin layering, epoxy finish. Gallery (1.5" / 4 cm) frame
24" x 35.5" (61 cm x 90 cm)
“Becoming”
“Three armies”
“Time is still”
“Breakthrough”
“Hidden treasures”
