Thanks for breakfast. Bread

When I moved to Australia three months ago, “Vegemite” was first thing I tried. “Vegemite” is a brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract. Local people usually have “Vegemite” on toast with avocado. So it’s a traditional Australian breakfast and I like it so much. I wanted to depict three ingredients of “Vegemite” and avocado toast in a painting series. The painting represents people giving thanks for the food in such a way that it was a deeply moving experience.

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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