Lady in owl mask (2020) Painting by Etery Sidyakina

Etery Sidyakina is a magical realist painter and storyteller, based in Russia. Etery began to paint and draw in early childhood and one of her most impressive memories was the smell of oil paint of the local painter, resided in her primary school building. She practiced painting a lot since the college and university times. Since 2020 year she works as a full time artist.She creates artworks, that are designed to evoke emotions and heat the imagination. For her, more important is the variety of thoughts and feelings, arising from the viewer in the process of contemplation, than the clarity and certainty of these thoughts.She gets her inspiration from different legends, tales and mystical stories. It gives her world a huge source of ideas and material to create mysterious and sometimes terrifying beings.The heroines in her artworks are often people, but can also be mystical or evil beings. She uses paint and ideas to knit together these ethereal beings into their environment and give them life in the physical world. Her paintings are in private collections in the USA, Canada, Belgium, France, Australia.

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1992
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• Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists