Portfolio

For my recent project 2020: Uninvited Unknown, which reflected on recent memories of Pandemia, I created a series of large abstract paintings in the limited palette colours in acrylics, oils and cold wax over digital print on canvas, to be exhibited in the gallery environment of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Here are the details of the paintings.

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on COVID-19

Untitled I

2 x 2 meters

Acrylics, oils, cold wax, oils sticks, markers, pencils, and monoprints over digital print on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on COVID-19

Untitled II

2 x 2 meters

Acrylics, oils, cold wax, oils sticks, markers, pencils, and monoprints over digital print on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on COVID-19

Untitled III

2 x 2 meters

Acrylics, oils, cold wax, oils sticks, markers, pencils, and monoprints over digital print on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on COVID-19

Untitled IV

2 x 2 meters

Acrylics, oils, cold wax, oils sticks, markers, pencils, and monoprints over digital print on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on COVID-19

Untitled V

3 x 3 meters

Acrylics, oils, cold wax, oils sticks, markers, pencils, and monoprints over digital print on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on COVID-19

Untitled VI

3 x 3 meters

Acrylics, oils, cold wax, oils sticks, markers, pencils, and monoprints over digital print on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on COVID-19

Untitled VII

2 x 2 meters

Acrylics, oils, cold wax, oils sticks, markers, pencils, and monoprints over digital print  on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on COVID-19

Untitled VIII

2 x 2 meters

Acrylics, oils, cold wax, oils sticks, markers, pencils, and monoprints over digital print  on canvas

My earlier project The Puzzled Dreams consists of three paintings

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting Purple Dream

The puzzled dream – Purple

60 x 60 cm

Acrylics on plywood 

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting Yellow Dream

The puzzled dream – Yellow

60 x 60 cm

Acrylics on plywood 

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting Blue Dream

The puzzled dream – Blue

60 x 60 cm

Acrylics on plywood 

The other abstract paintings project based on memories is a series of paintings in oils and cold wax on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on memories

Foggy Memories – I

30 x 30 cm

Oil and cold wax on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on memories

Foggy Memories – II

30 x 30 cm

Oil and cold wax on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova abstract painting on memories

Foggy Memories – III

30 x 30 cm

Oil and cold wax on canvas

Foggy Memories - I 30 x 30 cm Oil and cold wax on canvas

Foggy Memories – IV

30 x 30 cm

Oil and cold wax on canvas

I am interested not only in abstraction but also in figurative painting as well.

It was a challenge for me to create a large 180 x 120 cm figurative painting, acrylics on canvas. It was exhibited in the Copland gallery in the mutual show this spring, a couple of days before the lockdown.

The Intruder

180 x 120 cm

Acrylics on canvas

Ludmila Muravjova - The Intruder

Me in the Copland Gallery in London, March 2020

It was a fruitful year with lots of experimenting and gaining new skills and new experiences.

My next ambition to work on series of large abstract paintings reflecting on time and memories. I would also like to create contemporary figurative paintings based on personal memory and experiences, and on history.