My name is Fefa Koroleva.

I’m an artist from Russia, but based in Latvia.

I have a professional art education in art college and in University by specialisation painting.

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I connect moments of reality with fabulous themes. I portray animals as unique images and characters.

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I do my art works in oil or acrylics mainly on canvas, in pastels on special cardboard, in golden ink and gold leaf.

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My main subject of work is animals and especially horses, which is prominent in most of the works.

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I like to combine reality and decorativeness, lively lines and patterns. I create my unique patterns that look like unknown letters. I'm painting emotions and feelings, thoughts and memories. This gives me great freedom of expression.

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My works carry a personal experience of a living relationship with horses. Recently, the topic of living death has opened up to me especially vividly. Not as something dark and heavy, but as a stage in life. Like a transition.

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In addition to drawing, I also photograph horses.

One of the oldest horse breeds in Russia, the Don breed is in a very difficult position. It is small in number and does not receive any conservation support from the state.

For the last 10 years I have been actively involved in supporting and popularization the Don breed.

I photograph these horses a lot, write articles about them and draw.

My own horses are also Don breed horses.