*Afternoon palette

 

Name: Afternoon palette
Size: 100 x 155 cm; Oil on canvas
Year: 2002

The squinting city is flooded with lush colour,
while the cold of the night is creeping
in from the dark edges, filling the placid
streets and lanes with its icy emptiness.
It is the dreaming in tones of pink and gold
that weaves the warm net of the silent wander,
where the staining heat of the afternoon rises
to empty the mellowed asphalt for
the evening half sleep, hanging between night and day.



Name: White morning
Size: 100 x 130 cm; Oil on canvas
Year: 2002

Stains of sun on the scattered city, shapes
of the morning warmth and the deep damp shades
stretching towards the promise of the new day.
Stiffened reflections in the bay water, somnolent
and ungainly from roof to the base make up
the world of the daybreak, the timid steps towards
the dazzling noon.
Drowsy water is strewn with light and blurred images,
narrowing into the blue depth of cold,
where the remains of the night find
their silent shelter.



Name: Northern sun
Size: 110 x 130 cm; Oil on canvas
Year: 2002

The sea fades away in the blue numbness above; the wind floats by
in the shrilling loops, frightening off the flock
of the fluffy snowflakes hiding on the rough frost
of the winter rock. Separated from the rigid cold
by the invisible barrier of warmth that makes
the hostile triangles of houses, coloured
by the prickly-white snow so distant and exotic.
The humped back of the shore covered with
gray meadows of snow, sinks in the sharp coldness
of the waves and the winter slowly breezes outside.



Name: Landscape with a lion
Size: 120x130cm; Oil on canvas
Year: 2002

Alone with the sun, when splashing water
is breathing beneath and summer is swinging in waves.
Lazy dreaming, too sunny to move, too much summer
to ever think of the autumn skies – and the day sinks
in the tones of blue, shivering in the light.
With warm darkness of the sea and soft smoothness
of stone, blinding white with midday glare,
the minutes melt together to pass by leisurely
into the past.
The sky is swimming by with the clumsy clouds,
tired with sun, above the flowing outline of the body.



Name: Waiting for the sun
Size: 110x145cm; Oil on canvas
Year: 2003

The sun is gone under the scraps of the lingering
cotton; the cumbersome profile of the mountains
became the horizon, sewn together with the precious
remains of the clear sky. The day stretches
in dim sadness, caught in the hostile windy
darkness above and the glossy waves, burnished
by months of unhurried bliss curls, still keeping
the memory of the midday warmth.
Pearly tones of the body traced by
the twilight-soft shades, immersed in the mitigate waiting
for the shivering-bright promise of the sun.



Irina Kupyrova works mainly in a genre of
figurative, using the technique of oil on canvas.
She prefers using alive models and bright ethnic,
architectural and vegetal ornaments or patterns
in her works.

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1961 Irina Kupyrova was born in Kiev, Ukraine
1976–1980 Studies at the College of Art and
Design1980 Enrolls to the Painting Faculty of the
Kiev State Academy of Fine Arts.
1989 Graduates from the Academy
Since 1990 exhibitions in Germany and Austria
From 1993 lives in Prague, participates in
exhibitions and art shows in Spain, France,
Belgium and Switzerland.