Alina kolchanka
Mother ocean
Story of creation ✨
This work was created entirely from scratch on the island of Sri Lanka. The canvas was hand-made by the artist using bamboo and linen, forming an intimate, tactile connection with nature from the very first moment.
Each piece emerges through a slow, conscious process and is infused with a subtle, almost ritual energy. The paints were diluted with ocean water, allowing the ocean to enter the work not as an image, but as a living, physical presence.
The artwork carries the memory of place, the rhythm of the island, and the quiet power of natural elements.
Each piece emerges through a slow, conscious process and is infused with a subtle, almost ritual energy. The paints were diluted with ocean water, allowing the ocean to enter the work not as an image, but as a living, physical presence.
The artwork carries the memory of place, the rhythm of the island, and the quiet power of natural elements.
Process of creation ✨
This piece was created through long moments of floating beneath the surface,
at times resting on the ocean bottom. I was exploring how the ocean reveals itself from below —how the surface looks when seen from depth, and how the body feels when held by water.
Underwater, I experience a distinctly feminine energy of the ocean —
fluid, powerful, embracing. The face in this work is always drawn from myself.
It is how I allow the ocean to pass through me, how I feel it from within.
I dive into the ocean and rise back through it — again and again. The artwork becomes a trace of this movement, a dialogue between body, water, and inner vision.
The references for this work. I photograph myself using light and handheld sources,
observing how light bends, dissolves, and transforms in water and darkness. I study these reflections through my own body and presence, allowing light to reveal emotion, depth, and movement.
This process is not about copying an image, but about passing the world through myself — experiencing it from within and translating it into form. The artwork becomes a result of this inner observation, where light, body, and perception merge into a single vision.
observing how light bends, dissolves, and transforms in water and darkness. I study these reflections through my own body and presence, allowing light to reveal emotion, depth, and movement.
This process is not about copying an image, but about passing the world through myself — experiencing it from within and translating it into form. The artwork becomes a result of this inner observation, where light, body, and perception merge into a single vision.
02.02.2026 Sri-Lanka
Alina Kolchanka
Alina Kolchanka
This painting is a manifestation of divine energy flowing between myself and the ocean — a meeting point of water, spirit, and inner knowing.
It reflects my understanding of spiritual energy through a deep, embodied feeling of water, of becoming a water woman.
The drops of water in this work are not merely drops. For me, they symbolize honesty, faithfulness, and a heightened sensitivity — both emotional and physical.
The droplets painted on the body, including its most intimate areas, represent vulnerability and awareness, the places where sensitivity lives most truthfully. This work is about allowing water to move through the body, through perception, through the soul.
It is a state of immersion — where I am becoming the ocean 🌊
It reflects my understanding of spiritual energy through a deep, embodied feeling of water, of becoming a water woman.
The drops of water in this work are not merely drops. For me, they symbolize honesty, faithfulness, and a heightened sensitivity — both emotional and physical.
The droplets painted on the body, including its most intimate areas, represent vulnerability and awareness, the places where sensitivity lives most truthfully. This work is about allowing water to move through the body, through perception, through the soul.
It is a state of immersion — where I am becoming the ocean 🌊
Alina Kolchanka
Kolchankaalina@gmail.com
Kolchankaalina@gmail.com
