Irina Kotova

Hey!
I am an artist.
My name is Irina Kotova (Iryna Kotava, @irartery).
I am 35 years old, I live in Minsk, Belarus, married, have children, higher education, no bad habits. Ahaha))
From the very childhood I wanted to paint and somewhere in my heart I knew that I would become an artist.
Now for...

Hey!
I am an artist.
My name is Irina Kotova (Iryna Kotava, @irartery).
I am 35 years old, I live in Minsk, Belarus, married, have children, higher education, no bad habits. Ahaha))
From the very childhood I wanted to paint and somewhere in my heart I knew that I would become an artist.
Now for me an artist is not the one who knows how to draw, but above all one who cannot but draw.
A couple of years ago, I ended my pretentious office life and took a downshifting leap into the unknown, mysterious, scary and terrible creativity.
What drives me? I just can't help drawing. It is like a stream that at a certain moment carries me and I cannot resist, I just take paper and what comes to hand and make a sketch, and then, obeying the same stream, I take canvas and paints.
I was not looking for my own style either, it is a part of me. This is expressionism, naive.
For me, painting is, first of all, an opportunity to show my feelings and emotions that are prervasive at the moment.
My favorite quote from John Fowles's Daniel Martin: “Ultimately it’s not skill, not knowledge, not intelligence; not in luck or bad luck; but in preferring feeling and learning to feel "
With my creativity I want to "wake up" people, help them learn to feel.