Arina is dedicated to realistic traditions in painting working in Renaissance masters ‘sfumato’ technique yet inserting into her works her own contemporary essence. Her works involve viewer emotionally and intellectually, they consistently enrolled with strong emotional impact, an intellectual riddle and philosophical content.
Most often Arina portrays her characters with a direct gaze that triggers a special eye contact creating a form of close relationship communication with a viewer. Arina appeals to her audience with poignant sincerity that evokes viewers’ emotional response, and offers to viewers to experience deep emotions and hidden inner feelings that she reveals in her personages.
Arina Gordienko, figurative realist artist based in the United Kingdom, dedicates herself to realistic traditions in painting. She has an academic art education that includes MA Painting at Chelsea College of Arts and BA Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College (both - University of the Arts London, UK), and Distinction Diploma in Fine Arts at College of Arts in Russia.
Arina is awards winner and finalist of various art contests in the UK, USA and Europe. She exhibited at Saatchi Gallery and Mall Galleries in London, MEAM – European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in USA, Museum of Modern Art Vittoria Colonna in Italy, Museum of Fantastic Art in Vienna, OSTEN Museum of Drawing in Macedonia, Praxis Art International in Miami, Rehs Contemporary in New York, and others in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Russia, Europe and India.
Her works featured in various magazines and art books, such as ‘Strokes of Genius’ (Edition 4 & 6) USA, ‘Women Painting’, ‘Leonardo Art Guide’ (cover image) and ‘Arte y Libertad’ by MEAM - Museum of European Art Modern/Artelibre Gallery, American Art Collector Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, International Artist Magazine etc.
Arina's paintings included into The Bennett Collection (USA), OSTEN Museum of Drawing, and The Peregrine Collection going to land on the Moon in the Astrobotic capsule, and other private art collections.
Most often Arina portrays her characters with a direct gaze that triggers a special eye contact that creates a form of close relationship communication with a viewer. Arina appeals to her audience with poignant sincerity that evokes viewers’ emotional response, and offers to viewers to experience deep emotions and hidden inner feelings that she reveals in her personages.
