I am Ekaterina Seromakha, a science art artist from Moscow.
My paintings embody an endless admiration for the natural world — its diversity of colors, forms, and textures. In every brushstroke, I strive to express this love and passion. My paintings are born deep inside, through meditation and the repeated return to experienced images. All that remains for me is to observe how they come alive again on the canvas.
With the viewer, I want to share the beauty of the world ocean, the macro and micro worlds, and the diversity of the nature of the ocean depths. I enjoy directing attention inward, deepening perception and self-awareness in the viewer.
In my works, I combine realism and metaphor. I like to incorporate recognizable images into an imaginary world, bringing familiar phenomena to their spiritual origins. I studied this for seven years in an art studio.
My art is inspired by the most powerful images on the planet, but so far they are accessible only to scientists. These are the world ocean and outer space, between which I enjoy finding common ground. However, my main focus in my work is the marine world.
Conservation issues are important to me. Therefore, my love for the ocean, both in my work and in my art, is inseparably linked to the desire to protect it and to show its fragility.
My job at the Scientific Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography helps me connect science and art. For example, in this capacity, I participated in an operation to free orcas and belugas from a "whale prison." I was awarded a diploma by the Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo).