top of page
FullSizeRender.JPG

Olga Shlyapina

/about

Flower Therapy (macro)

    We all live in our own world and barely look around. And sometimes even plain things may become a source of beautiful ideas.

    One day I came to visit a friend and saw an interesting magazine. I started looking through it and then my eyes were focused on an unusual photo. It was a close-up picture of a half a red pepper . In the middle of it was a funny curl and in fact it was not a red papper anymore. It looked very unusual. The photo was taken in the style of macro and the signature was "Well, what kind of fruit you are!" I was struck by the fact that in the most ordinary things the photographer saw and showed what in everyday life we do not pay attention at.
     After that I began to look around carefully. So that's how my flower theme came to me. Now photos of flowers is my passion. This is how the Flower Theraphy appeared.

Emotional Art 
     So how the picture is born? The artist has in front of her what she wants to portray or the story is born in her mind that she will show in the future. This is the traditional view of art.
     And if to do exactly the opposite? There is an inner desire that is not in your mind but somewhere in the subconscious. You express it spontaneously without thinking about the story, color and shape. And then you create associations and fantasies about what it might be how is it like. I decided to try it and I liked it. So that's how my photos of paintings Emotional Art was created.

Flowers are treasures 

     I am a big fan of Flemish flower painting.  I have always been fascinated by flowers against a dark background, expertly executed by great Dutch artists. They inspired me to the last series of photos. Each flower in the photo is life-size, was taken under natural light, without using a tripod, and I held many flowers during the shooting in my hand to catch its most successful angle and light, thus creating a volume effect.  Flowers, like expensive jewelry, lay on black velvet waiting for connoisseurs.

bottom of page