Kachoufugetsu

 The Beauty of Nature

花を両手に持つのが幸福

"Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands"

Being always fascinated by Oriental art, Elenashirin draws inspiration for her art works from cultural diversity and from her various trips. Elenashirin has travelled for many years following a specific approach. Her artistic expression addresses a personal search focussed on highlighting the interpersonal relationships between people, with an eye wide open onto the feminine side. Metamorphosis, development and the many changes encountered by mankind, particularly by women, are topics at the core of her art projects.

 

Painting and photography are her favourite media to express her sentiments towards the universality of our human feelings. In her portraits transformation, change and the use of symbols evoke ancient writings, traditions and signs. Through the use of mixed media, such as water based colours, lacquers and various antiquing treatments, alternated by scratches and superimpositions the artist experiences new paths, merging painting with photography, crossing the boundaries between the two disciplines. Elenashirin has also worked with the traditional technique used in the earliest hand coloured photographs of the 19th Century, applying shades of colour by hand on black and white carbon prints, following the same formula used more than 120 years ago by the first colourists.