Painting of light. Solarism

Interior painting "Awakening of Harmony"

100x80 cm, canvas on a stretcher, oil and acrylic paints, gilding with various forms of hot melt (liquid, spray, powder) 2025

Collectible author's painting. First presented at the Business Forum "Art Capital 2.0: How Art Brings Profit"

👤 Author

Vanda Orlova (VANDA), Kyiv

Ukrainian artist, known in Europe as VANDA. Author of the technique and style "solarism", which combines light, gold and multi-layering.

Participant of art competitions UNITED KINGDOM'S ARTIST – Top 10 London 2025, Jackson’s Art Prize, Chelsea Art Competition, BBA Berlin Prize.

🖼 Artwork Description 

"Awakening of Harmony" is the moment of the birth of the day, when the space is filled with light, sound and movement.

A gramophone that catches the first rays of dawn, as if playing the music of a new beginning. Blue butterflies rise into the air as symbols of inspiration, freedom, fragile beauty and transformation.

This work is a synesthetic experience: music that glows; light that sounds. It creates a feeling of deep inner peace, renewal and harmony that awakens in the soul along with the sun.

The painting is made in the author's technique of "solarism" (from solar - solar), which allows it to change depending on the lighting, creating the effect of a "living canvas" that breathes along with the space.

This is part of the series "Living Dawns", which is participating in the International United Kingdom’s Artist Award - Top 10 London and will be presented at a solo exhibition in 2025 in Zurich (Switzerland), and later in Ukraine. The series is inspired by the poetry of Lina Kostenko and is dedicated to the theme of a new day as a symbol of renewal, opportunities and vital energy.

⚙️ Technical Details 

• Size: 100 × 80 cm

• Materials: Canvas, acrylic, oil, gold leaf

• Year of Creation: 2025

• Technique: Original technique — Solarism

• Series: Living Dawns VANDA

• Certificate of Authenticity: Included

• Unique Artwork

Purchase Options

• Original Artwork — $2500

• Canvas Print (stretched on a wooden frame, original size 80 × 60 cm, hand-signed) — $250

• High-Quality Photo Paper Print (unframed, original size 80 × 60 cm, hand-signed) — $120

• Framing with Passe-Partout — calculated individually, price depends on the selected passe-partout

Interior painting "The starting point of life"

100x80 cm, canvas on a stretcher, oil and acrylic paints, gilding with various forms of hot melt (liquid, spray, powder) 2025

Collection of the author's painting. First presented at the All-Ukrainian cultural and artistic project of the National Union of Ukraine "Woman. Mother. Bereginya" in the Central House of the Artist in Kyiv.

👤 Author

Vanda Orlova (VANDA), Kyiv

Ukrainian artist, known in Europe as VANDA. Author of the technique and style "solarism", which combines light, gold and multi-layering.

Participant of art competitions UNITED KINGDOM'S ARTIST – Top 10 London 2025, Jackson’s Art Prize, Chelsea Art Competition, BBA Berlin Prize.

🖼 Artwork Description 

This painting is a participant in the national Ukrainian cultural and artistic project “Woman. Mother. Guardian.”
Created using the artist’s original technique called “Solarism” (from solar — sun), the work explores the symbolic and emotional power of womanhood.

The central female figure is inspired by the art of Natalia Zanchevskaia (France).
She is not merely a mother — she is a crossroads of time, standing between the past (the dark night) and the future (a radiant dawn), holding in her hands a starting point — a golden grain.

The grain symbolizes:

• Life — not only as something a woman gives birth to, but also as something she nurtures, protects, and cultivates.

• Tradition — passed down through generations.

• Choice — the decision every mother makes: what will she pass on to her child — light or shadow?

• Ukrainian identity — as grain is the foundation of our land, history, and culture.

Painted in the unique Solarism technique, the artwork transforms with changing light, creating the effect of a living canvas that breathes with the space around it.

This piece is part of the series “Living Dawns”, which will be presented at a solo exhibition in Zurich, Switzerland in 2025, followed by a showcase in Ukraine.

The series is inspired by the poetry of Lina Kostenko and is dedicated to the theme of a new day as a symbol of renewal, possibility, and vital energy.

⚙️ Technical Details 

• Size: 100 × 80 cm

• Materials: Canvas, acrylic, oil, gold leaf

• Year of Creation: 2025

• Technique: Original technique — Solarism

• Series: Living Dawns VANDA

• Certificate of Authenticity: Included

• Unique Artwork

Purchase Options

• Original Artwork — $2500

• Canvas Print (stretched on a wooden frame, original size 80 × 60 cm, hand-signed) — $250

• High-Quality Photo Paper Print (unframed, original size 80 × 60 cm, hand-signed) — $120

• Framing with Passe-Partout — calculated individually, price depends on the selected passe-partout