Elena Alyabyeva
b. Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1985
y. active 2017 - present
A Night in the Mountains
pen, marker on paper, 5.5 x 8.3 in
Created on April 9, 2022
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At the time of drawing, the artist was in the city of Uzhhorod, far western Ukraine. She fled Kharkiv with her whole family to escape the war and now lives in a school gym adapted to accept refugees. She creates her works there or while walking around the city.
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The following night Elena and other refugees went camping in the mountains. Elena came out of her tent at night and saw the moon highlighting the mountain chain. Suddenly, a bell begins to toll in a distant village announcing some religious holiday. The sound is so clear that Elena can see it reverberating and bouncing through the mountains filling everything around, as if the mountains themselves are tolling, turning this moment into eternity.
Elena graduated from Kharkiv Art Lyceum and continued her education by taking private lessons. She has a unique and peculiar style where strong, determined strokes and bold colors are balanced by the softness of the subject. The war has changed the mood of her paintings. Her first personal art show was in Kharkiv in 2021 and a few months later she exhibited with the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Her works are in private collections in Germany, Denmark, Poland, and the United States.