The “Four Seasons” paintings series was created for a special commemorative exhibition that took place in Japan in 2015.
The painting “Autumn” depicts two major autumn symbols of Ukraine kalyna berries (lat.Viburnum) and chornobryvci flowers (Marigold). At the right up corner is a golden image of Fukushima toy cow Akabeko.
The marigold flowers are painted in traditional Ukrainian technics of Petrykivka.
The light green square in the middle symbolises open window of one of the empty houses in Chernobyl zone. The darker age of the painting symbolises view from inside the building. Golden dots are imaginative rain, that is transforming into late autumn snow.
The paintings represent Four seasons of a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. They features a changes of the nature
All paintings are painted with green pigment colour or homemade tempera.
For few years Zoia was researching particular Green color. She was researching the colours while making copies in Musee d’Orsay, she collects green pigment from around the world and afterwards creates her proper green colours she used in her paintings Green colour symbolises the hope and nature.
All paintings are square format of different sizes.
Skoropadenko loves Japan. She comes to Japan as much as allow her busy exhibition schedule. On each trip she takes a courses of traditional Japanese arts and crafts like kintsugi, maki-e, sumi-e. She later incorporates he inspiration of crafts in her paintings. Her paintings from “Four Seasons” series features paintings with imitation of craquelure, kintsugi or colours of traditional pottery.
Skoropadenko did a profound research on history of arts and crafts of the damaged areas Polissya-Chernobyl and Fukushima Prefecture: ancients figurines, glass, ceramic, wood and clay toys etc.
For this exhibition she incorporates in her paintings folk elements ( flowers, fish and birds) from ancient traditional Ukrainian ceramic ware from Polissia area where situated a zone of Chernobyl as well as traditional elements of Obori same - traditional crafts from Fukushima (horses, ume flowers etc).
From private collection
