Swimming with alligator (2022) Drawing by Natalie Levkovska

Gouache on Paper, 28.4x20.5 in
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"Swimming with alligator”. There was a time when I was very attentive to dreams. There was a notebook with a pen next to the bed, in case I suddenly wake up in order to write down what I saw. In the morning I looked into the interpreters of dreams to see the secret signs of the future or delve into the secrets of my subconscious. Those times are long [...]
"Swimming with alligator”
There was a time when I was very attentive to dreams. There was a notebook with a pen next to the bed, in case I suddenly wake up in order to write down what I saw. In the morning I looked into the interpreters of dreams to see the secret signs of the future or delve into the secrets of my subconscious. Those times are long gone, but there are a few recurring dreams that remain in my memory. In one of them, I am sailing in a gondola along a canal in Venice and watch with cold horror as the huge alligator swims next to me.
Therefore, when in a drawing lesson I drew a model holding by one hand on a pole, I immediately had an analogy with my old dream. Already in the studio, I finished drawing a blue gondola and an alligator to tell my story.
This drawing is part of a series of works called "The Secret Garden", in memory of the Orange Garden in Rome, in which the past and the present, the fictional and the real, something internal, but something that cannot be caught if it does not appear outside, are bizarrely combined.
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Было время, когда я очень внимательно относилась к снам. Рядом с кроватью лежал блокнот с ручкой, на случай если я внезапно проснусь, чтобы успеть записать увиденное. Утром я смотрела в толкователи снов, чтобы увидеть тайные знаки будущего или углубиться в тайны своего подсознания. Времена эти давно прошли, но в моей памяти осталось несколько запомнившихся повторяющихся снов. В одном из них я плыву в гондоле по каналу в Венеции и с холодным ужасом наблюдаю как рядом со мной плывет огромный аллигатор.
Поэтому, когда на рисунке я нарисовала со спины натурщицу, опирающуюся об шест у меня, сразу появилась аналогия с моим давним сном. Уже в студии я дорисовала синюю гондолу и аллигатора, чтобы рассказать свою историю.
Этот рисунок входит в серию работ под названием Secret Garden, в память об Orange Garden в Риме, который причудливым образом соединил в себе прошлое и настоящее, вымышленное и реальное, что-то что есть внутри, но то, что невозможно уловить если оно не проявляется снаружи.

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Natalie Levkovska is an experienced Lithuanian painter and illustrator. In 1995, she obtained a degree in stone, bone and wood processing from a master artist (Abramtsevo College of Applied Arts), and in 1999 [...]

Natalie Levkovska is an experienced Lithuanian painter and illustrator. In 1995, she obtained a degree in stone, bone and wood processing from a master artist (Abramtsevo College of Applied Arts), and in 1999 she completed a degree in costume design (Vilnius Academy of Arts). She then became a costume designer for the cinema industry, and later a fur designer. In 2006, she decided to change her life: she moved to London to work in a design studio, and started to experiment oil painting.

She creates simple and poetic artworks, mixing surrealism and naive art. Her artistic universe is a kind of magic realism: she likes to show real life objects and try to bring out the magical pulsation of space. The plots of her creations are taken from her life: a birch glade near her house at different times of the year, the portrait of a loved one, her village in the snow... 

Natalie Levkovska have organized 19 personal exhibitions, participated in a lot of paintings and drawings events, and her drawings can be found in many private collections.

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