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  • Windy Gelya Pisareva Windy Gelya Pisareva oil on fiberboard, 60х80, 2008
  • Returning, Fog Returning, Fog Gelya Pisareva oil on fiberboard, 60х96, 2008
  • Sunflowers Sunflowers Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on fiberboard, 55х70, 2010
  • Watering Site Watering Site Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on fiberboard, 55х70, 2012
  • Bay Willow Bay Willow Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on fiberboard, 50х76, 2008
  • Carrier Carrier Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on canvas, 60х80, 2002
  • High Water High Water Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on canvas, 90х110, 2012
  • Women with Green Wings Women with Green Wings Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on canvas, 90х110
  • Yellow Landscape Yellow Landscape Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on canvas, 40х50, 2009
  • Morning Ray Morning Ray Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on canvas, 60х80, 2011
  • Harvesting Potatoes Harvesting Potatoes Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on fiberboard, 61х87, 2010
  • Boats Boats Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on fiberboard, 50х60, 2007
  • Out of the Forest Out of the Forest Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on fiberboard, 50х84, 2010
  • Returning Returning Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on canvas, 40х60, 2008
  • On the Pskova On the Pskova Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on canvas, 60х80, 2012
  • Blooming Plum Blooming Plum Gelya Pisareva
    • oil on fiberboard, 55х70, 2010
14 Aug - 2 Sep 2012

Parasceve The Martyr, Called Friday —
A Holy Intercessor for Women

The image of St. Parasceve Friday has inspired the artist for many years. According to old faith of Eastern Slavs St. Parasceve is the protectress of lands and waters.  Women, young and old, considered her to be their intercessor in child labor, in house chores and in the fields.  Many people say that Parasceve the Martyr, called Friday is a holy intercessor for women.

Gelya Pisareva's sculptures and paintings celebrate ordinary women doing ordinary things: washing, bringing water, chopping wood, taking care of children, farming, gathering their harvest. The figures are tall and faceless, yet they show their closeness to nature and radiate an unforgettable feeling of warmth of motherhood. Ms. Pisareva shows us how ordinary almost unnoticeable daily work and cares of simple women signify their real purpose in life; she as if rediscovers for us the idyll of the Russian rural life, where people follow the precepts of St. Parasceve Friday.
Gelya Pisareva

Gelya Pisareva

Galina "Gelya" Demyanovna Pisareva was born in Leningrad in 1933. She is a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. In 1961 Ms. Pisareva graduated from the Repin Institute of Art, Sculpture and Architecture of the USSR Academy of Arts (Department of Sculpture, class of Professor V. B. Pinchuk). Member of the Union of Artists, member of Ozerki, Village of Artists Independent Non-Profit Creative Union. Her sculptures and paintings have been acquired by the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of Urban Sculpture, the St. Petersburg Museum of Toys, the Erarta Museum and Gallery of Modern Art (St. Petersburg), the Tyumen Regional Museum of Arts, and private collections in Russia and abroad.