Returning home (2025) Painting by Evgeniya Polyudova

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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Linen Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 39.4in, Width 47.2in
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After a long journey, the salmon herds return home. Salmon is the gold of Kamchatka. Kamchatka is the only unique region in the world where the wild salmon population is preserved. If you look at the map and the shape of the Kamchatka Peninsula, you can see sockeye salmon. In spring, millions of salmon herds come out of the sea and rise into the upper [...]
After a long journey, the salmon herds return home. Salmon is the gold of Kamchatka. Kamchatka is the only unique region in the world where the wild salmon population is preserved. If you look at the map and the shape of the Kamchatka Peninsula, you can see sockeye salmon.
In spring, millions of salmon herds come out of the sea and rise into the upper reaches of rivers to spawn. They travel a long way, overcoming many obstacles, before reaching their home, the place where they were born. They will have to jump up to three meters, climbing up the rapids of winding mountain rivers. Along the way, they will encounter commercial fishing and many wild animals that live off salmon. This is a huge food base for a large number of species of the natural chain.

As a result, salmon herds will lay eggs. And only 10% of the fry from this caviar in 4-5 years will be able to repeat the same life cycle again.
But this is an incredibly beautiful way of life, where each individual, returning home, transforms, acquires a different shape, bright color and, eventually, leaves his life there.

Having observed the nature of the Far East over the past 7 years, I began to notice parallels between the lives of wild animals and people.
If you think about it, human life is also somewhat similar to the natural cycle of salmon life.
We also come to this world, looking for some kind of invisible goal that should lead us to our destination, to Home, to the Source, to the Light. We travel a long spiritual and transformational path, intuitively choosing the right course of life, the right river, before we reach our goal. This is a difficult and winding path. And maybe not everyone will achieve the goal. But it is important not to give up, listen to your heart, which will tell you the right direction, your current and lead you to Home.

The work was a continuation of the Ark project series.

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She was born in 1977 in Sim, Chelyabinsk region in a creative family.She received a professional art education at the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Bashkir State Pedagogical University, in Ufa. Active creative [...]

She was born in 1977 in Sim, Chelyabinsk region in a creative family.She received a professional art education at the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Bashkir State Pedagogical University, in Ufa. Active creative activity for 10 years.

There are more than 50 All-Russian and international exhibitions and competitions in the asset. She has held 13 solo exhibitions, including a solo exhibition in 2022 at Domanov Gallery California, Long Beach, California, USA.

In 2018, she won an international exhibition in France at the Domaine de la Groirie gallery in Sarthe, dedicated to the annual Culture au Château program.

In 2022, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, she opened her own Polyudovaart gallery, where an exhibition of paintings by Evgenia Polyudova works on a permanent basis.

Her works are in private collections in the USA, England, France, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, as well as in the Museum of Local Lore in Severo-Kurilsk, in the Museum of Soviet Life in Ufa, in the Moscow Modern Art Theater.

She lived for 4 years on the Kuril island of Paramushir, actively devoting herself to the plein air. The wild nature of the island, with its active volcanoes, the ocean, influenced the artist's work, as a result of which his own style was formed in the technique of oil painting and impressionism.

Blissful images of a quiet haven of the material world seem to float from the paintings into the viewer's imagination. They remain the unattainable desired, but their visual form can bring peace to consciousness. Water, which fills all living things, as a constant element in paintings, on the one hand, gives a feeling of weightlessness, on the other hand, it becomes an axis of peace and order, an eternal return to the horizon, to balance.

My visual handwriting was formed during my life and active plein-air practice on the Kuril island of Paramushir. Observing and painting the wildlife of the island – active volcanoes, distant ocean – became a defining experience for me.

Landscapes painted in oil technique are intangible images, similar to reflections. The pasty manner of writing in my works creates the effect of distortion in space-time, which fills the distance between the eye and the depicted object. Thus, the image reveals itself as an aura. The paintings do not show a direct imprint of reality, but its aura, which I carry to the viewer.

My painting style goes back to the method of Impressionism. The aura of the work, which carries the memory of the depicted reality, is woven from fleeting impressions, flashes in my perception.

To add memory to the image, I use, among other things, direct artifacts – natural substances mixed into the paint in a natural way.

For example, in all the works of the Kuril series, there is ash from the Ebeko volcano, as they are written in plein-air conditions, due to ash eruptions that occurred very often during the day from the Ebeko volcano at home.

I fill my paintings with nature, let in the breath of the wind, the sound of the ocean surf.

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