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How would you describe your unique art style? How did you arrive at that style (or how did you evolve to develop that style?)

I would say that art styles affiliation is very approximate or conditional. My art style combines elements of Florentine school of Renaissance, Academic art and Romanticism of early 1800s. During my life in arts I tried myriad styles and techniques before arriving to this one. It is combination of my love for experimenting with texture and working with sketches. As a result, light image appears on canvas, like if it was created in a single breath with strong “realism” elements that gradually dissolving into a texture. I don’t want to go too technical here; my previous styles and their evolution can be seen in a book about my art “Two passions of Lena Sotskova”.

The thing is, I am lucky to have a really good art education that includes deep studies of world art styles and techniques, work around the clock with masters of painting, years of restoration work, studies of every muscle of human body in morgue (they cut actual corpses before my eyes); that’s why I don’t need models for my paintings. So, I guess, my style is a result of all that.

Lena Sotskova

From interview to Art Business News