Anna Klimentchenko

(Russian, B.1978)

Anna Klimentchenko’s paintings are her way of processing thought, feeling and memory. She works predominantly in larger formats, creating an immersive element to the work through scale.

Her paintings range from entirely non-objective to a combination of abstract and figurative elements, usually stemming from personal childhood imagery. These visuals for Klimentchenko are far less about a single memory, but rather what it feels like to remember. In her non objective works, form is entirely substituted by interwoven layers of ethereal colour. Images appear and disappear in relation to the viewer’s movement and the changing daily lighting conditions. Such paintings seem to to reveal themselves when viewed over a period of time, as the subtlety of the layered surface slowly emerges.

Materially, Klimentchenko experiments with new ways of applying different media to fabric or canvas. She works with the weave of unprimed cotton fabric, and has developed a printing method akin to monotype that she combines with water colours, inks and acrylics to create subtle shifts of hues.

Anna is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art, London and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US. She is based in London, UK.

 “I want my paintings to have a somewhat euphoric or meditative quality.”

- A. Klimentchenko

Exhibition: Art Rooms | Summer Selection June - August 2017

Exhibition: Art Rooms | Third Edition ~ February - Marh 2017