About Darya Tsaptsyna

I am a lifelong professional artist. I have learned painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and I have an atelier in Mondaino, Rimini Province, Italy. I have exhibited my art for many years in Italy and abroad. Now I am looking to sell my art online. I also teach watercolor to people from all over the world. I have a series of surrealistic oil paintings which I would like to offer to knowledgeable art collectors.

My canvas becomes a theatrical stage fostering the encounters between creatures of the unconscious, which turns out to weave a bizarre web of childish desires and the mysteries of the psyche. Romantic mirages and oneiric illusions involve the viewer in the action happening within the boundaries of the picture frame. The presence of the architectural elements in the paintings is a homage to the theatrical composition of the landscapes by Canaletto and to the farther of the perspective - Piero Della Francesca. The classical perspective as a milestone for the three-dimensional vision is often overcome delicately, guessing the subtle dimensions behind the thick matter. The secret of infinity is concealed in the present moment, in the silent contemplation of the immobilized gestures of the characters, whose stillness obeys the will of my brush.