Elena's love of rural motifs is often evident in her paintings.
Many villages are full of legends. Sometimes city dwellers are interested in the archetypes of the villagers, the drunkard debauchee, the man with the golden hands, the granny hoarder. Lena spent her entire childhood in the village of Ishlya, a colourful settlement with its entertainment, leisure activities, traditions, myths and scares. Through painting, the artist captures the memories of her childhood impressions of her native village.
All the subjects of the paintings in this series are different, animals, chickens and of course villagers appear here. But Elena consciously does not want to talk in detail about each picture, in the hope that the viewer, who has spent at least a little time in the village will have a memory and its own story on the subject of the picture.