Sleep in the cradle (2021) Resim Svetlana Gudilova tarafından

While studying at a music school, the teacher gave me the work of the Georgian composer Machavariani "Bazaleti Lake" to study. This bright piece, in which the rhythms of the waves and the oncoming storm were so well heard, impressed me so much that I rewrote its score as a keepsake. At that time there were no copiers yet and it took me several days to rewrite the sheet music. But after a while I return to this work, periodically performing it on the piano.

And now, recently remembering this piece of music, I thought that it would be nice to draw a picture that personifies this piece of music.
Bazaleti Lake is located on the territory of Georgia and there are many legends about its origin. One of them says that in the center of the lake, in a golden cradle, lies a golden-haired young man, and the lake came from the tears of his mother.

I really hope to someday personally visit this place and admire the lake, inspired composers and poets to praise its beauty, and me to write this picture.

Even while studying music, I learned about myself such a feature that when I listen to a piece of music, picturesque colorful images appear in my head. I believed that this happens with every person who listens to music. And only at the institute I learned that this feature is very rare and even scientifically studied. Its name is SYNESTHESIA.

Synesthesia is a type of color hearing in which musical sounds evoke color associations in a person.

In the paintings, as a color basis for the background, I take the sound tonality in which the work is written, and then convey the music of classical composers with the help of paints and colors.

My paintings are filled with music. When I paint pictures, I listen to a piece of music, and if the piece I am listening to is vocal, then I sing ... I am a laureate of international competitions in opera vocal and performing another piece, my picture is filled with live sounds and vibrations of music ...
And if the piece is instrumental, then I look for its piano score, and after the painting is finished, I perform that piece of music that inspired me on the piano and, accordingly, I also fill it with music ..

Why do I use seascapes for color rendering, and not abstraction?

The fact is that sea waves beat against the shore with a certain rhythm.

Dante also used the rhythm of the sea to compose the verse of his works. And music, as you know, is rhythmic.
The sea for me is the most alive on earth and changing its state; in my opinion, it is best suited for conveying a musical mood. Indeed, in different types of art, the state of mind was compared with natural phenomena. And what can disturb the soul as strongly as a sea storm, or soothe it, as the sound of water of quiet and gentle waves?

My paintings are the material embodiment of music, so you won't see animals or birds on them. This way I want the extra details not to interfere with the color perception.

You will see two titles on each of the paintings. The first is the emotions that I experienced while listening to a piece of music, and the second is the name of the piece of music that inspired me to create this image.

Not everyone is given a color hearing, so now, I want to share this quality of mine with other people and show them how beautiful a piece of music can look.

I want other people to be able to see what they hear ...

Have you noticed that during the twilight, the colors around become juicier and brighter?

In my opinion - pastel is much better than other types of paints, conveys brightness and richness, which I love so much in paintings. Therefore, for the image of the sea, I chose pastel. And if you put a pastel painting in a frame behind the glass, not forgetting to put a mat - an interlayer that would separate the painting from the glass, not allowing the pastel layer to come into contact with the glass, then such paintings retain their richness of colors much longer than oil painting.

Unlike oil paintings, the paint on them will not crack and burst.

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