Irina HAVASTE - Paintings
9.9. – 27.9.2009

Press Release

Seeking for a Natural and True Expression in Painting

Since I graduated from the Free Art School in 2008 the subject of my paintings have been plants and different forms of nature. My interest has now also turned towards water and it´s surface. The way it ripples, it´s abstract image and how plants and light are reflected upon the surface of the water.

Often the starting point of my paintings is something you can recognize, a three dimensional form, plants or water, for example. At the same time I am interested in and fascinated by the two dimensional surface of the painting and the line of paint itself, the play of paint on canvas.

The challenge of painting is to stay honest to one´s own work, without a too defined aim and to see what is created. Painting is arduous. I am seeking for a natural and true expression in painting.

The works at the exhibition are oil paintings.

-Irina Havaste-