Four Seasons. Winter , 2015
30 x 30 cm (h x w)
Pigment and gold on canvas

The “Four Seasons” paintings series was created for a special commemorative exhibition that took place in Japan in 2015.

The painting “Winter” imitates traditional Fukushima ceramics Obori Soma with specific craquelure technics applied. The golden ume flower (plum flower) is a symbol of Japanese end of winter and beginning of spring. A month before sakura blossoms plums flourishing with their delicate flowers.

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 colours 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 colours symbolised 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 Polissia-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.

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