TRANSFORMING WALLS into a unique space

My practice is rooted in the idea that color and texture operate as frequencies capable of shifting perception, alter attention, and trigger internal movement. Scale is not only aesthetic — it is functional, it pulls the viewer in. Texture controls pace: it slows the eye on relief and accelerates it across smooth surfaces. Color affects the brain and mood directly.
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COLORS ARE VIBRATING

GOLDEN SERIES

2024 - 2026

The Golden Series explores the idea of duality - contrast, tension, and the coexistence of opposites. Beneath the surface, fragments and structural elements suggest separation and difference, yet the golden field covers them all, creating a unified visual space. Gold here is not decoration but a mediator, absorbing contradictions and transforming complexity into a calm presence.

As the viewer moves and the light changes, the color shifts and reflects its surroundings, revealing that unity is never static but constantly reforming.

Chameleon, champagne gold and red bottom 2024

Acrylic on canvas
180 x 150 cm

Created just before the Golden Series, this golden Chameleon was part of an artistic experiment exploring perception and transformation. Using a complex and time-consuming technique of layered paper on canvas, the surface shifts with light and viewpoint, revealing changing tones of gold.
This metamorphic quality is intentional: the painting does not merely exist to be seen, but to be experienced. Like joy itself, its frequency is not fixed — it resonates differently within each observer. The Chameleon becomes a mirror of consciousness, inviting thoughts, emotions, and ideas to rise, transform, and realign.
This work serves as a visual meditation on awareness, adaptability, and the living nature of perception—where color becomes vibration, and vibration becomes meaning.

Untitled pair GS 3 | 2025

Acrylic on canvas
2 pieces 120 x 60 cm

This third paired painting in the Golden Series reflects our inner duality and the choices that shape us each day. Gold envelops every decision, revealing a deeper, higher meaning behind even the smallest acts of will.
The red flush along the bottom edge serves as the artist’s personal signature of meaning — a reminder to remain grounded in the present moment.
Unlike the other works in the series, this piece carries a subtle bronze layer beneath the final golden surface, creating a distinctive reflection that shifts and transforms with changing light.

Good morning, universe! 2025

Acrylic on canvas
95x125 cm, framed

Part of the Golden Series, this painting explores movement, perception, and inner rhythm through bold structural lines that guide the viewer across the canvas. The composition intentionally slows the gaze where the relief texture invites contemplation, and accelerates it across lighter, glancing passages.

Its golden surface changes dramatically depending on the light and the viewer’s point of view, revealing shifting tones and depths. This dynamic navigation mirrors the way awareness flows—between stillness and momentum—inviting the observer into a living dialogue with the work.

PUZZLES & JUTE SERIES

2024 - 2026

The Puzzle Series begins with a simple idea: one color, raw jute, and the physical presence of material. Inspired by artists like Ha Chong-Hyun and Heedon Lee, I treat jute not as a background but as the body of the work itself.

The puzzle elements introduce a tension between fragment and whole, stability and change - and an interactive moment for the viewer: the puzzle pins can be moved, allowing the composition to shift. For me, working on these pieces feels like taking a cabrio out for a weekend ride - a moment of freedom inside a more structured practice.

Less is More | 2025

2 pieces 100x150cm
Acrylic on canvas + jute, modeling paste, cement puzzles.

This is the second work in the Dynamic Artwork series, combining raw jute with movable concrete puzzle pins.

The contrast is immediate: sharp, untreated jute against glossy, tactile elements. The first response is physical — the surface invites touch. That is the entry point.

Then comes the second phase: participation.
This is not a passive painting. The viewer is given a frame and asked to step inside it. The movable puzzle pins turn observation into action.

Placement becomes projection.
Each move is a position, a decision, a story. There is no right composition. No wrong moves. No right answers.

The work operates as a mirror: what appears on the surface reflects an internal state. The process of arranging becomes a way to externalize thought, emotion, and personal context.

This painting marks a point of internal transformation and signals a new phase in Olpe’s artistic practice.

OTHER ARTWORKS

2020 - 2026

Not every work belongs to a series. Some paintings appeared before the Puzzle and Golden series took shape - at the very beginning of my practice.

In this section you will find both older and more recent works. Some are experiments, others are very personal pieces that emerged at specific moments in my life.

Many of them carry the red line that later became a recurring element in my work. It first appeared during one of the most uncertain periods of my life, while I was going through breast cancer treatment and followed a red line in the hospital every morning. The line was simple, almost instinctive - a mark of direction, a boundary, sometimes a horizon. In many ways, I simply followed that red line and now it's my signature.

Days Like WaterDays Like Water | 2026

I’m working on 2 series now - golden and puzzles. This one supposed to be part of the golden. That was my plan.

I started with a clear direction, but somewhere in the process the painting took over.

I stay inside the work until it begins to lead - until it finds its own balance, its own voice.

This one didn’t hesitate. It said: stop here. It’s done.

Acrylic on canvas
2 pieces 120 x 60 cm

Guilt | 2025

Acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm

This is a deeply personal painting — raw, direct, and uncompromising. Created in the “ebanina style,” it functions as a kind of distorted selfie, an auto-portrait that does not aim to beautify, explain, or soften reality. It captures the artist not as she appears, but as she feels: fragmented, intense, alive, contradictory.
The ebanina aesthetic — rooted in deliberate kitsch, absurdity, and emotional bluntness — becomes a language of truth here. It reflects the surreal nature of lived experience, where life does not follow harmony or logic, but arrives in shocks, colors, ruptures, and moments of strange clarity.
This is not a comfortable painting. It does not ask to be liked. It asks to be seen. It holds confrontation, humor, exhaustion, gratitude, and presence all at once. Like a real selfie, it is not about perfection — it is about proof of existence.
This work stands as a statement: I was here. I felt this. I survived this.

Selfie | 2025

Red left and bottom edges

Acrylic on canvas
120 x 150 cm

This painting is a deeply personal work — an unfiltered self-portrait created during a profound period of transformation in the artist’s life, following cancer recovery at the beginning of 2025. It marks a moment of raw acceptance: of survival, of vulnerability, of the fragile and miraculous nature of being alive. Every brushstroke carries the weight of lived experience, the shock of endurance, and the quiet rebirth that comes after facing one’s own mortality.
The stylized robot-like face, rendered in what the artist calls the “ebanina style”—a Russian term evoking deliberate kitsch—amplifies the surreal quality of existence itself. It reflects the absurdity, brutality, and unexpected beauty of what can happen to any of us. This is not irony for decoration; it is a survival language. A visual way to say: life can become unreal, shocking, and unrecognizable — yet still worth loving.
The bold, confrontational colors and simplified geometry resist sentimentality. This is not a painting about suffering; it is about awakening. About choosing to see, to feel, to be present. The face stares back not with despair, but with a strange clarity—accepting everything that is, without illusion.
This work stands as a testimony: to resilience, to transformation, and to the radical act of embracing life in all its unpredictable forms.

Untitled | 2024

Acrylic on canvas
100 x 150 cm

Inspired by a boat journey along the Croatian coast, this painting evokes the sensation of drifting between sky and sea, where horizons dissolve and time softens. A subtle boat silhouette emerges within the composition, not as a fixed form but as a presence—suggested, remembered, and felt.

Soft layers of blue, with gentle hints of violet, echo the movement of water, reflections of light, and the slow rhythm of waves. The surface remains fluid and atmospheric, inviting the viewer into a state of suspension between motion and stillness. Like memory itself, the painting shifts with light and perception, offering a quiet space for contemplation and inner navigation.

TRANSFORMING WALLS into a unique space

COLORS ARE VIBRATING

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