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Natalia Ostapenko

Natalia Ostapenko (b. 1990, Ukraine) lives and works in Lille, France. She has developed a highly refined and graphic, abstract style, which creates kaleidoscopic, geometric compositions with carefully honed, evocative colour palettes. This rigorously executed approach draws on her past experience as a designer as well as making reference to historic painting movements such as the flattened nature of Cubist still lifes, expressive colour field painting and the intense luminosity of Impressionist landscapes.

Her non-representational works hold strong associations with our visual experience of the world, for example, emulating the experience of changing light at dawn or the happy patchwork of intense summer colours in natural landscapes. Her work also references decorative applied and folk arts such as patchwork, marquetry and set painting, in its use of pattern, which Ostapenko gained knowledge about during her early studies. Ideas of collage are important in her work with some being reminiscent of cut-paper modernist works and others having a layered appearance, which creates depth. She plays with both symmetry and variation within her compositions.

Ostapenko graduated with a Master of Arts from National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. Before moving to France she exhibited regularly in Ukraine and had two solo exhibitions in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work is held within private collections in the US, UK, Singapore, Denmark, France, Georgia and Ukraine and this year she is exhibiting within Art Innsbruck in July.

Works by Natalia Ostapenko

Natalia Ostapenko

Memories, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

100 x 100 cm

39.3 x 39.3 in

Copyright The Artist

€1,500 / £1,290 / $1,800

Natalia Ostapenko

Spring, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

100 x 100 cm

39.3 x 39.3 in

Copyright The Artist

€1,500 / £1,290 / $1,800

Natalia Ostapenko

Who Are You?, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

70 x 100 cm

27.5 x 39.3 in

Copyright The Artist

€1,410 / £1,210 / $1,700

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