This auction item is an original oil painting by Ukranian artist and RAA member Olga Gernovski. Titled "Red Roses and Irises", the painting measues 20x24" and comes ready to hang.

Olga was born in Ukraine where she has started her art education. There she studied painting and drawing for several years, then completed her learning at the Art Institute of Boston.

Her paintings are dedicated to a discovery of harmony of color and movement, line and tone. The paint follows the brush or pallet knife creating form and images in space. The combination of the colors and shades twinkle and attract you to the depth of the painting as if speaking to you.

After many years of studying and searching for her personal style she found it. She calls it Color Dance.

“I like the feeling of the dynamics of line; its energy, its capacity to state and elaborate, and its suggestive qualities. I wish the people looking at my paintings to feel acuteness of a red blossom, transparency of glass, rushing forces of nature, thrill of human relations. At those moments lines flow as music and every artwork is a confession.”

Olga is a member of Rockport, Marblehead, and Cambridge Art Associations. She participated in numerous Art exhibitions and festivals, several of them international. In 2000 she has been awarded with a prestige grant of John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund. Many of her works were honored by First and Second Prizes, the latest of which is 2004 Marblehead Art Festival “People Choice” award for Painting.

For the last six years she had 10 personal shows. Olga collaborates with art galleries in Boston, Newburyport, Salem and Marblehead. During 2002 and 2003 her artwork was displayed by “The New Art on Newbury” gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. Her paintings are held in private collections in many countries including United States, Switzerland, Holland, Russia and Ukraine.