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OLGA GOUsKOVA
Lives and works in Bruges, Belgium
 www.olga-gouskova.be
artist contact
 info@olga-gouskova.be

Olga Gouskova paints women, always
beautiful and always stylish. Although
each painting portrays one woman,
these aren’t portraits of an individual.
They don’t seem to reflect individual
personalities but instead seem to
explore the same personality or an
idea of the same stylised personality
throughout each of her paintings.
All her ladies - sensual, melancholic and
mysterious -have a physical intensity, a
subtleness of form, outline and volume
which almost makes you want to
caress them. And these female figures
do in fact caress themselves, almost
as if to emphasise the preciousness of
the female body - the eternal source
of life and love.

They express liberty, emotion and
passion; aided by the absence of a
temporal context they pursue and
follow on each other thus breaking
through the confines of space and
multiply themselves in an infinite
distance.

The bright and mellow colours
illuminate the features and emphasise
the sense of the inner being caught
in that precise moment. The sinuous
lines in Olga’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
colour produces paintings that are
modern, proud, vibrant and uniquely
individual.

seVen, mixeD meDia /goUacHe anD
sepia on paper 20x28 in. /50x70 cm.