Galina Golovchak is an oil painter from Russia mainly focusing on the natural world, sea, and forests. Nature can be a simple add-on to a painting to convey a sense of depth, or perspective. However, it can also be the main focus of a work of art. Just like nature can be recreated through art, it can also be used as a stand-in for greater thought and that’s precisely what Galina captures in her paintings.
She studied in an art school in a small Siberian town till 2007 and then joined the technical school for the specialty architecture after which she took a break from the art world. Getting back to her passion in 2017, she began engaging actively in oil painting. Now she is an artist at AG Gallery based in Moscow.
Galina developed an interest in the marine theme since childhood. She loves the green untouched massifs and the deep sea and has portrayed nature in its glory in her art. The current trends she follows are realism, landscapes, and seascape painting.
Trying to distract herself from the cold climate of her hometown, she devotes her free time to painting seascapes. Concentrating on the texture of the sea – a restless sea, foam streaks, powerful waves, the artist’s water fills the entire space of the canvas, absorbing dry land and leaving no space for a human.
Galina wants to portray the preservation of nature in its original form in her art with all its brightness, saturation, and clarity without any human intervention. Her Instagram account @may_gol_art is brimming with stunning and realistic pieces of nature, the sea, and forests. She takes pride in her spectacular marine paintings, as well as a big painting of The Taiga after the Siberian Taiga experienced a tragic fire.
Galina says, “|Art is a way to express yourself and show the public the topics that you care about, what you love, what you value, what scares you, and so on… Art is a dialogue with the viewer, art is the world.”. Her favorite artist, Alexey Savrasov, is a Russian Landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style.
