A painting is sometimes all the light
one needs for an evening.
Small rooms
for colour, warmth,
and a little quiet.
These paintings are made the way good things have always been made — patiently, by hand, by lamplight, with the door closed against the hurry of the day. They are meant to live somewhere cosy, near a chair you love, where a cup of tea has time to cool.
Each canvas is finished in its own time, then wrapped, addressed, and sent the way one sends a careful letter — with a small, attentive ceremony, and a wish for it to arrive warm.
Emotional paintings that bring luck and success
into your life.
A painting on the wall is a small, steady kindness. It greets you in the morning. It keeps you company while the kettle whistles. In the evening, when the lamp is the warmest thing in the room, the painting answers it — colour for colour, warmth for warmth — and the room becomes a place that knows you.
It will not promise miracles. It will not raise its voice. It will simply be there, the way a good shawl is there on a cold evening — soft, present, on your side, unfailingly warm.
That is the small, patient work that colour does. It looks after the room. The room looks after you.
— A few, to begin with
All works →— How the work happens
The studio is in Germany. Oil, watercolour, acrylic, ink — whichever the painting asks for, that morning. A window with kind light. A pot of tea that cools on the table. Brushes in old jars. A radio left on low, because the room paints better with company.
Some weeks the studio stays still. Other weeks K. Samorodina is on the road — the gold of the Moselle vineyards, the slow kitchens of France, the sunlit walls of Spain, the cold blue of the Alps, the long refined afternoons of Italy. Each canvas carries a little of those journeys home with it.
Nothing is rushed. Nothing is mass-produced. Each finished piece is signed, wrapped in soft paper, and sent with a handwritten note. The note matters; the painting will be in someone's home for a long time, and a stranger's handwriting is the first hospitality it offers.
More about the practice →