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OLGA GOUSkOVA

Lives and works in Brugge, Belgium

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.olga-gouskova.be

Often walking hand-in-hand with controversy is the
sensual female form, Russian born, Belgium-based
artist Olga gouskova certainly knows how to capture
an audience with her paintings of beautiful and stylish
women. gouskova’s women are sexy, melancholic and
 LeFt WINDOW, 2007 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS, SEPIA, PEN 30x30 IN. / 80x80 CM. mysterious, with a powerful physical intensity and a
 sWeet Dreams, 2007 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS, SEPIA, PEN 40x20 IN. / 100x50 CM.  subtleness of form which almost makes you want to
caress them.

Her female figures do in fact caress themselves, almost
as if to emphasize the preciousness of the female body
- the eternal source of life and love. The sinuous lines
in gouskova’s paintings convey vibrations, memories,
ambivalent feelings and deep emotion by means
of the positions and expressions of the figures. Her
contemporary approach to pose, dynamic composition
and color produces paintings that are modern, proud,
vibrant and uniquely individual. when painting, gouskova
uses two different techniques. First she draws the body
with sepia pencil to make it look almost real - warm
and soft, giving it a feeling of physical intensity and a
subtleness of form, outline and volume. For the rest
of each painting she uses acrylic and all kinds of pens
to draw lines and small decorative details. She doesn’t
paint the volume, using instead flat washes of color. The
lines and patterns make the composition dynamic and
complete.

Each of gouskova’s paintings is a story about a woman.
It’s the way she feels, the way she is, how she hears the
rain falling, how she feels the warmth of the sun; it’s her
dreams and secrets, her emotions and fears. Sometimes
people ask her why she doesn’t paint men. She says it’s
because she doesn’t know how it feels to be a man, but
she knows how it feels to be a woman...

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