Evelina Klanikova

is a Latvian born artist currently living in Heilbronn, Germany and studying art at Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim. She works predominantly in large format oil paintings, an outlet which provides her with the room for powerful and dynamic expressions. Her work focuses on a one of a kind point of view centred around both lively abstract and compelling figurative forms; often combining them into a distinctive style of her own.

Klanikova flourishes in the exploratory nature of oil painting, demonstrating a variety of techniques that can be found within experimenting with the slow drying process, colour combinations, and details through layering. You can see through her abstract works a vigorous shifting of colours, she paints opposing forces through light and dark, resulting in the beauty of these changes represented through a gentil luminosity. Most prominently, you can see this marriage of illumination and movement in her urban landscape series which recreates a long exposure image that represents the constant movement we go through in our everyday life.

The subject in all her paintings, whether it be abstract portraiture or dynamic landscapes, emulates an intense energy caught in the midst of transformation. We can see it in the gusts of wind in her aviary paintings, the flow of water in her landscapes, the movement of her urban depictions, and the swirls of movement in her abstractions. Klanikova is inspired by the constant flow of movement in both the viewable and unseen aspects of our everyday life, utilizing her paintings to reflect the nature of all things. Her paintings, whether it be the traditional landscapes or the more abstract ones, captures a specific moment in time. No matter the subject matter or style, her works acts as a portrait of movement, a representation of the space we take up and how we move through them.