‘I paint my whole life ever since I can remember. Since I was two, to be exact. This need was more than anything. Subconscious, like breathing’, Olesya recalls.

‘ “I can’t live without painting” — a trite phrase, but it has all in it. My paintings are my entire world. Each painting is like a child, but you love the recent one most.

When you get down to painting, everything flies away somewhere, trouble, fuss… I take a brush and… fall through, like Alice down the rabbit hole, a short flight and I’m already in Wonderland.’

These paintings, executed in oil, enchant instantly. Uncomplicated and familiar, these stories with a stunning selection of colours and naive perspective make the pictures dear and comprehensible.

‘My paintings are mostly about a woman. There she is looking out of the window at the first snow, thinking, smiling. Or she is sitting at the table in a cozy cafe, sipping flavoured coffee. Well, hello, my dear viewer, let’s start our talk!’

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