Katia Demyanova’s oil painting of black gondolas moored before the arches of the Ca’ d’Oro in Venice, framed and hung on a weathered plaster wall
Venice, Ca' d'Oro. Evening light, 2002 · €890

Original oil paintings by Katia Demyanova

The Adriatic sea, Italian hill towns, gardens and flowers, painted by an artist of thirty years who lives in Lanciano, Abruzzo.

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In my paintings you see trees, houses, the sea and the sky, sometimes people too. But there is no point counting the tiles on the roofs or the olives in the garden: the detail no longer exists.

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Close-up of oil brushstrokes: coral and pink petals and violet hydrangea in an ochre vase beside an orange, on layered blues
Detail: Blue Hydrangea Branch on Blue, 2023

About Katia

Katia Demyanova is a painter who lives and works in Lanciano, in Abruzzo, Italy. She has painted for more than thirty years, mostly in oil: the Adriatic coast, Italian hill towns, gardens and still lifes. She trained for ten years in the Moscow atelier of the avant-garde painter Yuri Zlotnikov, then with Aleksei Kamensky, and in the 1990s at the École des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.

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