Magzoid - International Art Magazine | Edition - Nov,2020

A rtist
Stories
“Inspire and Empower”
See Valentina Alexeevna’s
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Featured artist - Valentina Alexeevna
The charm in the moonlight
makes it the most admirable in
the night sky. To own that kind of
magic one must be unique and build
an aura with originality and love. The
unprecedented beauty of being
the only one to own the variation of
work is a task for the extremely talented
and determined. Composing
new alternatives to bridge the gap
between creativity and standing out
to be noticed is a very important and
difficult task to accomplish.
Someone who has truly worked
to identify the relevance of being
unique is Valentina Alexeevna, a
Russian artist based out in the UAE.
Valentina lives through the eyes and
the world of a doll. She is a visual
artist who works in a variety of
mediums. Her art explores identity,
femininity, and energy visualisation.
She often paint dolls and creates
abstract mixed media art. She
encompasses vibrant colours, solid
shapes and a focus on aesthetics
with elements of glitz, where perfection
is essential. United with
circles, squares, 3D elements and
childlike motifs.
She stays away from trends and
follows her vision and embraces
the unfound differences in art and
complexity. Addressing a trend, she
prefers going in the opposite direction
as it gives her the benefit of not
being one in the crowd. She loves
her style of being unique and original
and enjoys challenging
herself to make an
impactful difference.
Valentina has a novel
take on the aim of her
artworks, on being
asked she revealed her
thoughts by quoting, "I
live through the eyes
and the world of dolls.
My dolls are an extension
of me, and their
world is my inner reality,
they represent my
essence and help me
explore, express and
embrace my true self.
My dolls are personified
indirect self-portraits
and dollified mini
girls with enlarged baby
schema features, referring to facial
proportions found in infants. These
features amplify doll’s cuteness
and youthfulness, to signify a deep
appreciation for the delicate feminine
nature of women. My dolls
are inspired by children illustration,
kawaii culture and Blythe dolls." Her
divergent take on the kind of art she
portrays is discrete and new.
She was always passionate about
art, however, she pursued business
from The University of Leicester, U.K.
for many years before coming to art.
She learned fine arts in the form of
private tutoring, from artists from
the Fine Art Society of Moscow and
Pictured above: Artist, Valentina Alexeevna
became an artist by profession in
2017. She started teaching workshops
for kids and adults as she
got back to Dubai, the place she
was brought up in and the city that
kept her inspired and motivated her
art career. This career path took off
very quickly as she created signature
workshops with her own techniques,
which was completely new,
and nobody had taught before. She
worked and spread her knowledge
and the views of art and technique
in almost all art schools in Dubai,
various festivals and was the main
art teacher at World Art Dubai in
2019. Meanwhile, Valentina was
working on her new art series and
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