Wonderbird invites the viewer to experience the world of our immediate experience, as it is prior to our thoughts about it; the world in its enigmatic multiplicity and open-endedness. We witness life and metamorphosis in progress—an emotional and imaginative migration toward freedom, unboundedness, and sky.

Ekaterina’s painting practice explores sensation, transformation & becoming through abstraction. She paints rhythms, flows and forces that collide, interfere, or morph.

Her paintings contain dynamic energy systems that contract and expand to create complex intensities and to elevate the viewer’s experience of being fully alive and present.

While some of the paintings may be viewed as a reflection of the complexity in our world, they also generate their own multiplicity, within their own worlds, through the materiality of the paint.

The focus on sensation and the sensory is central to Ekaterina’s work. There’s a strong emphasis on experimentation in her mark-making – luscious gestural swathes of oil paint meet thin, watered-down washes of pigment, as well as profuse, heavily worked clusters and patterns of textured paint. She is interested in achieving a variety of complex, picture surfaces, with multiple opposing forces, which would encourage the viewer’s eye to continually shift in the painting, searching endlessly for the next movement or displacement.

Originally from Bulgaria, Ekaterina interweaves her Eastern European sensibility into her work with her bold, unapologetic use of vibrant, saturated colour alongside more muted tones, as well as with her confident employment of patterns that repeat, rupture, and reassemble.

These paintings work as sensory puzzles  – conundrums that celebrate our senses and our imagination, triggering a deep sense of curiosity and expansiveness.

Image: Ekaterina Dimieva: Wonderbird - oil on canvas

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