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BLUE SKY RED

Veronica Smirnoff

To Smirnoff, it is the fluidity of the human experience that intrigues her the most; life, in its fragility and delicacy, constantly oscillates between beauty and tragedy. By muddling fantasy with reality, distorting perspectives and colours, mixing cultural references and iconographies, she seeks to portray something of her own quest to understand the complexities of the world around her. She describes painting as an elusive search, forever driving her forward to create new works, challenging herself in scale and experimenting with the limits of the medium...[Read full essay here]