V. Bulava

Adroitly rendered human figures frame the golden inner workings of a Grand Piano. Gently contorted bodies eschew gravitational limits in a luscious dance of rhythm and grace. The beautifully executed musculature dares the viewer to compare a more perfect form. Surrounding architecture and the piano’s surface are adorned with gold and silver leafing. It shimmers with the adjoining lush reds, sapphire blues and always the masterfully realized colors of sensuous flesh tones.

Viktorija (pronounced “Victoria”) Bulava approaches her work with many highly acclaimed academic accomplishments. They include a Master of Art Science Degree from the Latvian Academy of Arts in 1996 as well as several prestigious international awards and scholarship grants. The artist’s home is Riga, Latvia. It is a city renown for its rich heritage of great painters and sculptors throughout the centuries. Riga is also home to the finest collection of art nouveau buildings in Europe. That influence is decidedly apparent in many of V. Bulava’s works.

Bulava renders her mixed media canvases with precise draftsmanship and at times a liberal incorporation of varying surface treatments. Her techniques are complex and refined. Often in her imagery she marries the classical rules of good composition with modern, nearly kinetic, background styles. Other works are augmented with a buildup of plaster-like areas, which are then hand etched or incised with flowing patterns producing a brightly colored cloisonné effect. V. Bulava is a painter of beautifully aesthetic renderings. Her work exemplifies the gifted talent of civilizations most masterful artists.