Elena Bardina Artworks
Elena Bardina was born in Russia. Her interests in the classical arts
were aroused by her Mother who had a penchant for coffee table art
books, specifically Paul Gauguin. Her Grandmother, nurtured Elena's
artistic beginnings by insisting that she be enrolled in Ballet classes,
which was just as well as it was to be her Ballet that would carry
Elena through her establishment years of her early career as a painter. A
compulsive doodler, Elena passed many of her primary school years being
scolded for over decoration of her exercise books, although always
receiving a high distinction for her art class.
With several generations of scientists, research engineers and
mathematicians forming her heritage, the young Elena was well placed to
commence her formal engineering studies at the Lvov Polytech College.
But her love of the Arts could not be denied, and shortly after
graduation, Elena was accepted at the Academy of Art in Lemberg. During
her time at the Academy Elena augmented her income. Her work started to
receive serious attention and acclaim and was exhibited in several
Moscow galleries, including the famed Krimsky Val and in the
international Commercial Centrum, where regular exhibitions of Muscovite
painters take place. Her talent allowed her to be accepted as a
student of well-known Armenian painter Gregor Grigorijan in Moscow where
she studied under his tutelage.
After several well received exhibitions, Elena was fortunate to win
sponsorship to travel and study throughout the art centers of Germany
where the study of the style of the German painting school, which is
much more influenced by abstraction then the slightly more
traditionalist Russian school, caused a strong change of influence to
her style. The two-year sabbatical radically affected Elena and she
started anew, her painting career, with an almost total renaissance of
her art. Elena quickly demonstrated her powerful new style by producing
several paintings that allowed her to hold formal exhibitions in the
Treveris passage in Trier, Deuschman Gallery in Kassel, in the district
court at Bitburg, and the Russian Cultural Centrum in Luxembourg.
Forever pushing the boundaries of her art, Elena led followers in
various collaborative international projects, with painters from France
and Russia, who congregate when schedules permit to bring together the
combined artistic styles of the French impressionists, the German
Russian Masters into one unique artistic work.Today, Elena Bardina
paints from her 'Pied a Tierre' studio in Berlin and has become
fascinated with Venice and paints the abstract beauty and emotions of
its Carnivals as a canvas to mirror human emotions and relationships.
