All little girls draw princesses and ballerinas
Elizabeth Melbārzde painting series now are available on ArtAlea. Her main theme focuses on ballerinas and ballet. The image of ballerina reminds us of the girls' childhood dreams, and hopes to embody such grace, lightness and flight...
Elizabete Melbārzde ballerinas shows us all kind of emotions - joy, sadness, anger, success and failure, bearing in mind that in every woman lives a ballerina. Elizabeth Melbārzde paintings make you happy and delight you. The beauty of ballerina embodies our feeling of esthetic world. It is not one particular ballerina, Elizabeth paints from her imagination, resulting het image in timeless place.
Elizabeth Melbārzde ballerinas are in private collections and galleries all around the world, which means that her paintings speak in international language. In her art work you can see influences from Byzantine art and icons. Therefore, she often uses gold and silver plate, which is covered in a special technique on the canvas surface. The stylization of shape comes from her inspiration from Gothic and Art Nouveau, extending her brush stroke beyond the borders of reality.
Her paintings are also very empathic and family-oriented. She says: "My life is extremely beautiful- my children, their drawings, so many beautiful things around me. It is the feeling of happiness. This is the moment when I brush my daughter’s hair and I suddenly realize the composition of my next work! You can’t make a photo from that, there is no possibility to capture that moment. So I try to show it in the painting.’’
Elizabeth Melbārzde paintings will be outstanding and beautiful gift for Christmas, because it embodies peace, balance and nostalgia. And we want to feel it around this time.