Natalia Ostapenko

Natalia Ostapenko is a visual artist based in Lille, France. She has 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.

Ostapenko 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 life’s, 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.

References to decorative applied and folk arts such as patchwork, marquetry and set painting is also evident in Natalia’s work in its use of patter. 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’s main materials are acrylic on canvas and each work is thoroughly researched and sketched in advance.

Natalia Ostapenko’s work is held within private collections in the US, UK, Singapore, Denmark, Germany, France, Georgia and Ukraine.

This autumn she is participating in a group exhibition within Monat Gallery in Madrid and exhibiting her works at the Paris Art Fair (art3f) and Art Innsbruck Fair.
Among recent publications Natalia had articles in such magazines as Divide (Canada), Artmajeur (France), Bluebee (UK), Al-Tiba9 (Spain).

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