Tetiana Bond

With a diploma from Kiev Superior Arts Institute in 2009, Tetiana began her career as an interior designer. During this time she had to work on the production of visual works in her spare time, making this leisure time into a privileged meditative, introspective moment. Gradually this activity was to grow by becoming, and this happened a few years ago, as indispensable to her everyday life as to her personal make-up, her practices being in every way a reflection of the instinctive desire for self-expression so pursued by the artist.

Tetiana’s approach is totally concentrated on the dynamism flowing from architecture and industrialisation in modern cities, so she attempts to translate this into her support by focusing the energy and beauty emanating from them. Galvanised by the blank canvas before her on the easel, Tetiana lends this support with euphoria and gracefulness by projecting her mental images by means of oil paints applied by brush and more particularly by knife. Armed with a rich and contrasting palette, the Ukrainian painter works on elaborating her subjects by concentrating on the interplay between her sensitivity and the visual elements. Thus ""in [her] paintings the world is not represented as it is in real life, but as [she] might wish it to be"".

Between daydreams and travel impressions Tetiana’s work immerses us in electrifying urban landscapes. With her vivacity of gesture and a honed sense of composition, the artist brings about an intense interplay of colourful textures designed to intensify the atmosphere characteristic of our urban centres.