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I have always loved art and beauty having always looked for and appreciating beautiful things, places, views, objects, people, ideas. This led me to wanting and needing to paint them. Fascination with colours and brush strokes is the unending source of creativity for me in the quest of expressing something inexpressible, conjuring up magic, be enticed by illusion. Capturing a moment in time I have been awed, mesmerised, fascinated into silence - a moment of creation beyond words. Sharing that private moment captured, that special something, that beauty perceived and cultivated is what my art practice is about. I get lost in beauty and emerge with a painting longing to be lost again and again. Beauty is there to be shared with others.
About the Artist
An Australian artist with interests in philosophy and meditation, arts, music, literature and everything enjoyable and sybaritic.
My painting interests are in oil, acrylic, watercolour and ink media, being influenced by Chinese and Japanese painting styles, Indian and Tibetan art and philosophies, global impressionists and realists.
I have been attending Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney at the Rocks, Painting in the Third Eye School of Ted Blackall, Paddington Art School of Stephen Wesley Gorton, and have been privileged to take lessons with well-known Australian artists - Ted Blackall, Stephen Mann, Josefia Lemon, Stephen Wesley Gorton, Evert Ploeg.
Artist who inspire me: Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse, Rothko, Pollock, Mitchell, Cui Ruzhuo, Wu Guanzhong.
Education: Bachelor of Education English/Linguistics, Diplomas in Computer Studies, Diploma of Acupuncture, Certificate Life Coaching, Qigong Teacher Certificate
Work: I have worked in the corporate IT in tech support and sales, have run an acupuncture clinic and offered life coaching services, currently I am immersing myself in art and spiritual practices, as well as working with mind techniques to let go of emotions and experience the inner truth - beyond concepts and labels.
Exhibitions:
2020 - Art3f MONACO Art Fair, 21-23 August - link
2020 - "SING-NATURE", solo exhibition of 34 artworks at the Arts House in Singapore - link
2019 - "Singapore Love" solo exhibition of 10 artworks at The Australian High Commission in Singapore, selected to be exhibited by the High Commission - link
2013 - Finalist, Hornsby Art Prize, Sydney NSW Australia
Saatchi Art Profile - https://www.saatchiart.com/elvirabyrnes
I was born and raised in Russia, and have been living in Australia for the second half of my life. My family are highly-educated teachers, professors, military officers. From the young age appreciate of art. music, literature, ballet have been instilled in me. My father who completed three highest military institutions, a lieutenant-colonel, was creating amazing works of art in many genre - sculpture, paintings, calligraphy, wood carvings, poster design. Whatever he touched turned out great. I like to think that his artistic blood runs through me. As well as my mother, a professor of English, with amazing appreciation of classical music, ballet, art and literature. I am truly blessed to know that her linguistic blood runs through me.
I have worked in the corporate world most of my life as an IT support engineer and in sales, and later on as an acupuncturist and a life coach.
I derive most of my inspirations currently from nature. I spend time observing nature and taking photographs at different times of the day and seasons. I am doing my own flower arrangements for still lifes inspired by the masters of the past. I am preparing the materials for en plein air painting.
My painting interests are in oil, acrylic, watercolour and ink media, being influenced by Chinese and Japanese painting styles, Indian and Tibetan art and philosophies, global impressionists and realists.
I have been attending Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney at the Rocks, Painting in the Third Eye School of Ted Blackall, Paddington Art School of Stephen Wesley Gorton, and have been privileged to take lessons with well-known Australian artists - Ted Blackall, Stephen Mann, Josefia Lemon, Stephen Wesley Gorton, Evert Ploeg.
Artist who inspire me: Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse, Rothko, Pollock, Mitchell, Cui Ruzhuo, Wu Guanzhong.
Education: Bachelor of Education English/Linguistics, Diplomas in Computer Studies, Diploma of Acupuncture, Certificate Life Coaching, Qigong Teacher Certificate
Work: I have worked in the corporate IT in tech support and sales, have run an acupuncture clinic and offered life coaching services, currently I am immersing myself in art and spiritual practices, as well as working with mind techniques to let go of emotions and experience the inner truth - beyond concepts and labels.
Exhibitions:
2020 - Art3f MONACO Art Fair, 21-23 August - link
2020 - "SING-NATURE", solo exhibition of 34 artworks at the Arts House in Singapore - link
2019 - "Singapore Love" solo exhibition of 10 artworks at The Australian High Commission in Singapore, selected to be exhibited by the High Commission - link
2013 - Finalist, Hornsby Art Prize, Sydney NSW Australia
Saatchi Art Profile - https://www.saatchiart.com/elvirabyrnes
I was born and raised in Russia, and have been living in Australia for the second half of my life. My family are highly-educated teachers, professors, military officers. From the young age appreciate of art. music, literature, ballet have been instilled in me. My father who completed three highest military institutions, a lieutenant-colonel, was creating amazing works of art in many genre - sculpture, paintings, calligraphy, wood carvings, poster design. Whatever he touched turned out great. I like to think that his artistic blood runs through me. As well as my mother, a professor of English, with amazing appreciation of classical music, ballet, art and literature. I am truly blessed to know that her linguistic blood runs through me.
I have worked in the corporate world most of my life as an IT support engineer and in sales, and later on as an acupuncturist and a life coach.
I derive most of my inspirations currently from nature. I spend time observing nature and taking photographs at different times of the day and seasons. I am doing my own flower arrangements for still lifes inspired by the masters of the past. I am preparing the materials for en plein air painting.
If you ask me what my main interest in art is, it is the experience of Joie de Vivre and non-conceptulisation that follows.
When are we truly happy? When we wish everyone the same that we wish for ourselves, when we understand the humanity is filled with the same wishes for happiness, peace and love. The more we feel we are one in that quest, the more our negative limiting emotions subside and the peace and love and happiness become uncovered. We see the world as part of ourselves. This is a process of self-discovery. Allowing one’s mind to project joy, peace and love that are naturally there. Uncovering the truth. Art is to help one experience one’s own true nature by stopping all conceptualisations and be the joy. Preciousness and value of beauty in our lives, looking for beauty in everything and sharing the joy of it with others is my artistic motto.
"In Beauty we are united,
Through Beauty we pray,
With Beauty we conquer."
- Nicholas Roerich
"Beauty and happiness and life...are [the artist's] only concern...They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.....One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It's like a memory of perfection." - Agnes Martin
"There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out." - Ad Reinhardt
“Through the window I saw two fir trees in a park, and the grey sky, and the beautiful grey rain, and I was so happy,” she said. “It had something to do with being alive. I could see the pine trees, and I felt I could paint.” - Joan Mitchell
When are we truly happy? When we wish everyone the same that we wish for ourselves, when we understand the humanity is filled with the same wishes for happiness, peace and love. The more we feel we are one in that quest, the more our negative limiting emotions subside and the peace and love and happiness become uncovered. We see the world as part of ourselves. This is a process of self-discovery. Allowing one’s mind to project joy, peace and love that are naturally there. Uncovering the truth. Art is to help one experience one’s own true nature by stopping all conceptualisations and be the joy. Preciousness and value of beauty in our lives, looking for beauty in everything and sharing the joy of it with others is my artistic motto.
"In Beauty we are united,
Through Beauty we pray,
With Beauty we conquer."
- Nicholas Roerich
"Beauty and happiness and life...are [the artist's] only concern...They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.....One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It's like a memory of perfection." - Agnes Martin
"There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out." - Ad Reinhardt
“Through the window I saw two fir trees in a park, and the grey sky, and the beautiful grey rain, and I was so happy,” she said. “It had something to do with being alive. I could see the pine trees, and I felt I could paint.” - Joan Mitchell
"And as you meditate more and you work on your art more, the boundary between meditation and the practice of art, between openness and action, becomes fuzzy—which is what everybody experienced in the past. Aggressiveness brings competitiveness, money concerns, comparison, frustration, excitement, all kinds of things. If there’s no aggression, that brings joy, openness, dance." - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Artist With A Cause
Since 2014 I have been supporting a monastery school in the Northern India. Support includes monetary sponsorship of food, clothing, educational needs, repairs and construction, including my volunteering to teach English. I thank everyone who has contributed to what I do so I can continue with cause mission of love, caring and benefitting others.❤️
