Former New Zealand Rugby Captain of the All Blacks. Led the team through 2 World Cups and 111 games of which 98 were victorious. This technique of glazing was very hard to do at this size as the canvas is 120cm square and had to be kept flat on the floor meaning it was rather back breaking reaching into the middle of the canvas.
Born in Kiev Ukraine, raised and educated in the UK and now currently residing in Auckland NZ, Val’s art is as diverse as her background and interests. These of course include Art in all shapes and forms, humanity, sport, music, skating, humour and wine – and not always in that order!! In her earlier years, her artistic outlay was as a professional figure skater starting her show career with Disney on Ice then doing various Ice Skating shows around Europe. Moving to New Zealand at 21 she started coaching Figure Skating which became her passion for the next 18 years. However, having to stop coaching to become a full time mum she used whatever time she could to expand her art into portraiture. Her beautiful daughter was her inspiration for her initial portraits and now her extensive portfolio showcases her art in all mediums from oil to coloured pencil. Being told some years ago that she should ‘brand’ herself as an artist to become recognised was to her like being told “you have to have the same dinner every night”. That was a very inhibiting and unnatural concept to her artistic ethos and she decided to re-embrace diversity and experimentalisastion. Having recently discovered Photoshop she is now experimenting with traditional hand drawn techniques with digital image manipulation and is loving the the chance to push her art past the usual parameters of painting with a brush.
More artwork by Val Maslennikova
Raindrops on Roses
Blue Bubble Nebula
Dioxazine Dawn
VVN342-4
billie Eillishh
Michael Jackson
Lorde
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