Night

The woman as a “Night” symbol. The yellow circle is a moon and pearls on the woman’s neck symbolize the stars. It was pearls that personified the power of the waters, cosmic life, the feminine. A model for the portrait was a cousin of my friends back home in Odessa. She is depicted in a sitting position in a half-bent pose with the crossed hands.
To the right of the figure of a woman is a yellow primrose flower or moon flower. A plant that lives under the moon can bewitch, surprise, catch a curious look on itself, holding it for a long time.
Indeed, when you peer into the inflorescence of evening primrose, time loses its significance, visits a comprehensive sense of eternity and unsurpassed beauty.
On the painting on a left corner you can see a sleeping bat. Traditionally, Bat symbolises two qualities – long life and happiness for the Chinese, and in some cultures, darkness and chaos. Bat is often regarded as a symbol of death and rebirth.

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Arina Apostolova is from beautiful old city Odessa, Ukraine. When the war in Ukraine is begun Arina decided to move to Australia, so currently she is based in Australia, traveling around and collecting inspirations from the environment here. Her interest in art started from the graduation at architect academy in 2007 where she learnt academic drawing and basic painting techniques, refining the knowledge in color theory, perspective and composition.

As a professional full time artist Arina started relatively recently, basically from the big art project named “Sacred Geometry” which was successfully displayed at the local exhibition by UNION- architect studio in Shanghai in April 2021.

Arina typically works and keeps exploring the oil paints on the canvases of various sizes. Within her own body of work, she classifies the typy of paintings as "Composite Realism", because they involve elements of intense realism combined with abstract patterns and surrealistic dream-like scenes and symbolic images. This is a