olha pryymak

The glass and steel structures give a perfect opportunity to concentrate on the skies above.

more skywatching:

It’s hard to get the work squeezed into a school-off schedule, so my daily paintings are less regular these days. But yesterday, after a trip to the hair stylist and a good run around in the playground with my 4 yr old, I stumbled onto this beautiful tower nearby St. John’s Square in Clerkenwell. It was a lucky find since someone suggested a while ago to take a look at it – a real gem in the midst of the City. No chance I could try to explore it inside with the Mini in tow though, beautiful exterior for now.

2011, oil on panel, 19 x 19 cm, contact for availability

Today’s subject is the beautiful Christ Church Spitalfields  and the handsomely restored houses on the streets around it are the subjects of today’s painting.

Corner of Fournier and Wilkies St., oil on panel, 19 x 19 cm 2011, contact for availability

I am already planning another trip to Lviv in my mind, this keeps fueling my interest in painting more of the beautiful city. The fountain sculpture of Diana (1793) and her dogs on the Market square in Lviv was restored with the help of public donations a few years back after one of the dogs lost his paw. These table and chairs in the painting belong to the cafe By the Diana surrounding the beautiful fountain. I miss spending Thursday nights there drinking chilled kvas from heavy glass beer mugs and watching street dancers making their moves.

Back in the saddle with the London daily paintings here. Jetting off later to the Netil House. They are holding open studios day there today, will try to put up this one as well as a few other pictures from the nearby area on show on the walls of my little studio there.

Now that the BP portrait award show participation (not with this pic though) has dawned on me, I’ve put together a flickr set of my portraits that I’ve done to date.  I am still beyond myself about this happening to my work, can’t wait till the private view of the show in June to meet all the other artists in it. Don’t have the photo of the self-portrait that is going to be hung at the National Portrait Gallery  to show off here, it was all too much of a last minute operation to finish it and get to the jury on time. But basically, it’s a small picture of myself squinting at the sun.

Speaking of the sun, loved how it brought out the grand architectural detail in this building nearby the Royal Academy.

Had a lovely sunny weekend in the neighborhood. The temperatures went up so much, many people pulled out their sandals and sunscreen.

Just finished a large painting of the fabulous Somerset House archway entrance. I did a small one of it before and totally fell in love with the image. It’s currently on show with  Real Hampstead exhibit in West London.

oil on canvas, 50×70 cm (20×28 in), 2010, (£491)

Getting ready for a show at Hampstead, six of my little paintings are scheduled to go up there  on July 22nd, including this one. This is a well-loved image of mine . The columns create a kind of a natural frame for the painting. In spite of loads of architectural detail, it also looks very minimal.

This is a commission  for a couple who are moving away from London  and would like to take with them the memory of their lovely house in Belgravia.