VIEW FROM ABOVE AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTING BY AYAN KHUDAVERDIYEVA
Ayan Khudaverdiyeva influences her work by adding layers of either oil or acrylic paints, mixing them with various media, to achieve her vision, on canvas, wood or paper with brushes, knives and pieces of wood. While describing painting application method on assorted panels, the artist explains that as a minimalist, she prefers using about up to three paint layers, that are joined together. Each layer of paint has a high influence on the one behind it, in contrast to the impact of a flat surface. Finding inspiration in planet’s nature, has driven her motivation to create similar, as well as unique artwork. Inspired mainly by the planet earth, The View From Above shows the care of an artist for the Mother Nature, preserving our golden - on its own - earth, loving and doing all we can to save it. Creating self-awareness for the seriousness of mass consumption affecting the earth, is the main goal the painter is trying to achieve in her message. Touching subject matters, such as, limited natural resources that are being extracted continuously for production growth (excessive unnatural foods, drugs, plastic, cars, weapons), that cause as a result for our earth’s warming globally, pollution of air, oceans and lands, disastrous outcomes for the future generations to come. Where there is no longer a good education, respect and love, play a significant role in the society, only greed, manipulation, and selfishness became a goal to be achieved as a success measure for happiness. Our earth is alive, it is living and is amazingly beautiful and wealthy on its own. By not preserving, not saving its resources Human Race is unconscious of affects it causes to the health condition of our planet, and there will be no way to control the planet and once it becomes unhealthy, and then it will no longer be possible to prevent anything anymore. “Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realise we cannot eat money.” ― Cree Indian Prophecy
Ayan Khudaverdiyeva was born in Baku, Azerbaijan - former Soviet Union, in August, 5th, 1986, to a Russian mother and Azerbaijanian father. At the age of 21, she moved to the United States to continue her education, at the University of Northern Colorado. Since 2010, she worked and lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, occasionally in New York, and now she lives in London, UK.
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Cadogan, 2018 Acrylic on linen 100 x 100 cm £1400
Conservatorium, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 150 cm £3200
Friday, 2018 Oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm £1400
Saturday I, 2018 Oil on canvas 130 x 150 cm £1700
Sunday I, 2018 Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm £1200
Sunday II, 2018 100 x 100 cm Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm £1200
Sunday III, 2018 Oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm £1400
Baku, 2018 Oil on wood 80 x 80 cm £1550
Holland, 2018 Oil on linen 100 x 100 cm £1400
Dutch, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm £1800
Sunday IV, 2018 100 x 100 cm Oil on canvas £1200
The Night, 2018 100 x 100 cm Oil on canvas £1200
Sunday V, 2018 120 x 120 cm Acrylic on canvas £1400
Paris, 2018 Oil on linen 140 x 150 cm £3200
Precious Mother Earth, 2018 Oil on linen 140 x 150 cm £3000
Pure Love, 2018 Oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm £1600
Thursday, 2018 Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm £1200
Tuesday I, 2018 Oil on wood 100 x 100 cm £1700
Tuesday II, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 150 x 160 cm £2700