“I want my paintings to stimulate the viewer and to evoke thoughts, memories, pictures, strategies to their aware thoughts.”
By Rise Artwork | 20 Feb 2023
Larissa Eremeeva has not long ago joined the platform, bringing her ‘evocative abstract’ works to the platform. Larissa is pushed by inner thoughts of transience and impermanence… mortality, eternity… generational threads that could bind or could split… how recollections may be recalled and how reminiscences may possibly be erased. Whether these thoughts and memories relate to individuals felt by the artist herself, is not vital. What is crucial is that men and women who see her artwork may well be stimulated to delve even more and explore their personal perceptions of the entire world and their very own emotions.
Vanishing issue, 2021, oil on a stretched linen canvas, 100 x 100cm
How would you describe your artistic style?
I connect with my style of summary expressionism “evocative abstract” – I want my paintings to promote the viewer and to evoke feelings, recollections, images, tips to their conscious head. Irrespective of whether those people inner thoughts and reminiscences relate to these felt by me when I designed the operate is not crucial. What is vital to me is that individuals who see my art may possibly be stimulated to check out their have perceptions and emotions. The names I give my functions also play a component in producing a curiosity for the viewer to delve further more.
Just like that, 2022, oil on canvas, 120 x 100cm
What messages or themes do you want to connect with your get the job done?
I draw on themes these as silence, the poetry of just currently being – encouraged by poets these kinds of as Pessoa and Pasternak – and memories recalled. I assume of my work as turning tips into emotion, which is then expressed by the rhythms and textures in my paintings. There is an inherent contradiction in most of what I do, as there is in significantly art and in lifestyle alone.
Woman starlings also sing, 2022, oil on unstretched canvas, 110 x 120cm
How has your apply progressed over the years? Have you normally labored in an abstract type?
Right up until I moved to Italy from the United states of america, I painted figurative is effective. I utilized my art to satisfy my obsession with human conduct – in individual our strengths and vulnerabilities as we go about our daily lives. My return to Europe, and occasions in my private existence, drove me to convert my emphasis inwards – and “evocative abstract” resulted from that new concentration on myself and my very own thoughts.
Bare morning, 2022, oil and sand on canvas, 150 x 150cm
What is an ordinary day like in your studio?
I wake early, sometimes as early as 4am The working day starts with coffee – 2 cups of cappuccino while I quietly shepherd the photos and pin pricks in my head into a coherent system of function for the working day. Then I climb the stairs to my studio in what was when the grand drawing home of a palazzo below in Abruzzo. It’s a tremendously inspiring put to operate. I prepare the tough composition of any new piece on my Mac, mix my colours on my desk best glass palette and… paint. In some cases it’s a new perform, at times it’s finalising and perfecting a operate started out the preceding working day or the previous week.
By 11am, it is normally time to halt and get inventory – am I completed? do I need to have to revisit the piece a further time? I generate for around 4 hours each and every working day the relaxation of the day is for the a lot more mundane but vital jobs of functioning the studio. Quite frequently art collectors are unaware of the time consumed in buying elements, picture shoots, liaising with galleries, planning marketing and advertising materials, conversing to collectors and so on.
Larissa functioning in her studio (@larissaeremeeva)
What/Who are your critical influences?
Marlene Dumas, Gerhard Richter, Peter Doig.
Who are some Rise Art artists with work you happen to be experiencing at the instant?
Susannah Douglas, Dorota Jedrusik.
The wilful pursuit of ignorance, 2021, oil on unstretched canvas, 122 x 183cm
Are you at present doing the job on any interesting new projects?
My existing series is known as “On the verge of waking up”, which is a reference to Pessoa’s The E-book of Disquiet. As you can consider, it’s bought a good deal to do with the contradictions that can look when we’re in in between the sleeping and waking state – or perhaps it is even as Pessoa suggests, “I truly feel as if I’m constantly on the verge of waking up.”
