Sofia Shelest is an artist from St. Petersburg.
The main medium is oil. The main theme is the internal landscape.
The artist explores the inner world through images and natural phenomena. The idealistic inner forest opens up an observing perception: changes of days and nights, willow trees by the water, resting angels under the crown, fountains, heavenly bodies in eternal silence. Hidden surreal images provide an opportunity to explore the laboratory of your mind. The artist works with inexpressible themes of joy, dreams and hope, deliberately bypassing catharsis, but turning to philosophy and sensory sensations.
Sofia Shelest was born in 1992 in Grozny, into a creative family. She studied at KubSU, Faculty of Architecture and Design, majoring in Graphic Design. She studied the classical Russian school of painting and graphics in the workshops of the Moscow Union of Artists, the workshops of M. Rubanova, I. Bazanov, T. Struchkova (2014-2018). Participates in exhibitions since 2014. Along with easel painting and graphics, he illustrates books for adults and children by Russian and foreign authors.
In 2022, she moved from academic landscape practice to her own pictorial sound. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
Paintings and graphic works are in private collections in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Israel, Cambodia, and Great Britain.
