Celebratory still life
The painting Festive Still Life is filled with light, air, and subtle elegance. The artist arranges a composition on a white tablecloth using transparent glasses with candles, delicate roses, a seashell, and refined tableware. The objects appear simple, yet their placement and rendering reveal careful thought and a pursuit of harmony. Light permeates the entire scene, creating shimmering highlights, particularly on glass and porcelain.
The color palette blends warm ochre-yellows with cool blue-gray tones, lending the work a refined festive feel without ostentation. The symbolism is quiet and clear: candles suggest warmth, flowers life, the shell — eternity. This still life is not merely decorative; it’s imbued with gentle lyricism — a suspended moment before something meaningful begins.
Svetlana Bondarenko-Skibinekaya
Born on May 30th, 1964 in the town of Mosty in Grodno region (Belarus). Graduated from Republican Boarding School of Music and Fine Art named after 1.0. Ahremchik (1978) and from Belarusian Dramatic Art and Fine Art Institute (1989).Works in the field of art designing, in various genres of easel painting.Lives in Brest.