Ellada
London
Ellada — Artist Conceptualist
I mainly work with oil on linen — I’m drawn to its dampness, its quiet strength. Sometimes I break tradition on purpose: I use oil like watercolor, let it spill, dilute, rebel. They say it’s not how it’s done — I say rules are for someone else.
I don’t paint what I see. I paint what insists on being seen.
I don’t paint what I see. I paint what insists on being seen.
Education
Kyiv State Academy of Decorative of Mykhailo Boychuk
Specialization: Icon Painting
Specialization: Icon Painting
Exhibitions
The Holy Art (London, 2023)
Old Sessions House (London, 2024, 2025)
Old Sessions House (London, 2024, 2025)
Artist Statement
I don’t paint mere pictures —
I send erotic transmissions, charged with the raw energy of the moment.
I send erotic transmissions, charged with the raw energy of the moment.
Each brushstroke is a spell cast. Each canvas, a fate rewritten. Those I paint — they transform.
The walls that bear my work — they shift.
Nothing remains the same.
The walls that bear my work — they shift.
Nothing remains the same.
I am born of both God and Devil. Their fire flows through my veins. Their tension breathes life into every creation.
My art transforms. My art heals. My art touches something ancient — and profoundly real.
I descend from a lineage of priests and iconographers.
But unlike them, I paint the God I know —
the one I can hold, hear, and become:
myself.
But unlike them, I paint the God I know —
the one I can hold, hear, and become:
myself.
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