Last week's blog was an offset to the dog days of summer. It was about water and the sea. It was to take us away from inland misery to the coolness of ocean breezes and capturing the power of the ocean for tide and wave rides.
This is why Vadim Klevenskiy - a master painter of the ocean was chosen. It was while researching him, I realized that another artist painted a similar subject and had the same last name!
Further investigation proved that Tatyana Klevenskiy (1961-) is Vadim's wife and painting partner. Her style and choice of subjects made it difficult for attribution as to whether it was Vadim or Tatyana's works. The one thing I noticed was that while she could paint the sea in all its power, she also created many paintings of still waters.
What also set Tatyana apart was her interest in large paintings of seashells. Most of her hyperrealistic shell paintings are 3.5 feet to 4.5 feet in dimensions! Imagine finding a small shell on the beach and painting it in detail to such large size.
In order to give you, dear reader, a sense of Tatyana Klevenskiy's depth of work, I've included an ocean scene full of the turmoil that Vadim paints so often, her still water works and her own well-known seashell paintings.
(At some future date, there may be a blog of their combined floral paintings and see if you can figure out who the artist is.) Stay cool!
The seashells look like photographs of actual shells. Beautiful.
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