Pintura Paris 20 - Montmartre por Niko Marina | Pintura Figurativo Urbano Aceite

Originally from the port city of Samara, where she lives and works, Marina Nikonova is a Russian painter who graduated from the Samara State Academy of Culture and Arts in 2015. The following year, she became a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, a national association with which she now exhibits every year.A passionate traveler, the young artist likes to execute her pictorial works in order to capture the unique atmospheres that emanate from each of the countries she travels through, striving to immortalize as much the beauty of the people as of the places she visits. From Israel (Tel Aviv) to Latvia (Riga), via England (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Hungary (Budapest) and Mallorca (Palma), Marina composes snapshots of everyday life imbued with a strong symbolism, which she describes in these terms: "in my , I try to convey the notions of transformation and meaning of images through a play of metaphors and associations". does not limit herself to a single subject, in order to diversify her practice as much as possible and give space to her creative expression, while remaining resolutely realistic. Thus, scenes from everyday life alternate and enrich each other to form a body of work as eclectic as it is harmonious.