AVA — the initials of Artamonova Victoria Arkadyevna and the first name my parents gave me at birth.
Creativity has always been and remains for me a means of self-expression, the realisation of artistic potential, a way of life, my hobby, a kind of mission that I cannot help but fulfil.
Through creation I express my inner world, feelings and emotions. Creativity reflects the state of my soul...
"Creative work — a beautiful, extremely hard and wonderfully joyful labour. This labour, like any other work, requires time, patience, great tension of forces, but only it gives a person a sense of satisfaction, pride for the work he has done."
Creativity has always been and remains for me a means of self-expression, the realisation of artistic potential, a way of life, my hobby, a kind of mission that I cannot help but fulfil.
Through creation I express my inner world, feelings and emotions. Creativity reflects the state of my soul...
"Creative work — a beautiful, extremely hard and wonderfully joyful labour. This labour, like any other work, requires time, patience, great tension of forces, but only it gives a person a sense of satisfaction, pride for the work he has done."
A.N. Ostrovski
As a child, I dreamed of becoming a magician who makes people happy, and also an artist and an astronaut. But before I started to realise these dreams, I finished music school and then got an economics degree.
Then I married, gave birth to and raised three wonderful children.
At the age of forty I wrote my first book, drew illustrations for it, and got a degree in psychology and started to fulfil my first childhood dream.
At forty-seven I started painting with colours on canvases and my second childhood dream came true.
I was not trained in this skill. Painting is my revelation, my prayer, my meditation, my pleasure... Painting is like breathing for me.
At the age of fifty I wrote my second book, I got interested in cinema, made several short films based on my stories, documentaries and I continue to be engaged in this creative activity.
I have a lot of ideas and projects that I plan to realise on this planet. That's why my third childhood dream — to become an astronaut — I have postponed it for some time :)
I am sure that you can realise your dreams at any age. As long as we are here in this world, nothing is ever too late.
Then I married, gave birth to and raised three wonderful children.
At the age of forty I wrote my first book, drew illustrations for it, and got a degree in psychology and started to fulfil my first childhood dream.
At forty-seven I started painting with colours on canvases and my second childhood dream came true.
I was not trained in this skill. Painting is my revelation, my prayer, my meditation, my pleasure... Painting is like breathing for me.
At the age of fifty I wrote my second book, I got interested in cinema, made several short films based on my stories, documentaries and I continue to be engaged in this creative activity.
I have a lot of ideas and projects that I plan to realise on this planet. That's why my third childhood dream — to become an astronaut — I have postponed it for some time :)
I am sure that you can realise your dreams at any age. As long as we are here in this world, nothing is ever too late.
I ask myself philosophical and existential questions. I research various methods of practical psychology, study the influence of art on consciousness and subconsciousness. I look for ways of their effective interaction to solve specific human problems. I discover new opportunities for self-realisation in its various spheres, travel, do active sports...
Sometimes I see young people in their early thirties who think their life is ending.
I also know amazing people who are well into their sixties, and they managed to find their happiness, their vocation, started a new career, found health and love. They wanted to and they were able to. It is obvious to me, my life is proof of it, that after fifty everything is just beginning and it is potentially one of the most fruitful and brightest periods. I am sure that if we do something about it, "there are far better things ahead of us than those we leave behind," as Clive Lewis once wrote.
I also know amazing people who are well into their sixties, and they managed to find their happiness, their vocation, started a new career, found health and love. They wanted to and they were able to. It is obvious to me, my life is proof of it, that after fifty everything is just beginning and it is potentially one of the most fruitful and brightest periods. I am sure that if we do something about it, "there are far better things ahead of us than those we leave behind," as Clive Lewis once wrote.
