Zoya Koinash

Lives and works in Valencia, Spain

Artist statement

As an artist, I accept the world and myself through painting, it’s my way of being. It’s a moment of extreme honesty. The images that come most exciting, because in common life I find it difficult to understand my feelings. I’ve been working as a digital artist since 2004 at a game companies. Although there is much room for creativity and artistic growth in my work, it is above all a craft and a production process. Like many people, I crave answers - who we are, where we go. I looked for answers in love, in the family, in the Bible, and many answers I found in quantum physics, which inspires me and gives birth to many images in my imagination. I paint a world based on what it might be, given that our perception of the world is limited to our senses. I take myself as a surrealist artist, and I use automatic drawing, and my ideas are always intertwined with personal experiences. I pay particular attention to the movement within the painting. Another source of inspiration for me is journey.(lived three years in Asia, in Thailand, Nepal and Indonesia, a year and a half in Buenos Aires, and a year and a half in Spain and England, visited many museums in those places.) It gave me a sense of belonging to different cultures, a sense that you were part of this cosmos. I looked at my art and technique from a new angle. To develop myself as an artist, I attend the academic classes on composition, drawing and painting and nude nature with a teacher from the Belarusian National Academy...

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