 hen they ask Svetlana Pavlovna about the aim of her work, she always answers with a smile, "It is very simple... It is to kind people for a lovely sight." Yes, it seems to be so simple at first sight... But what labour the master needs to create this beauty, lightness and elegance. How great it is that the power of the man's talent can transform a simple needle to a magic needle and our life to a fairy tale.
S.Sokolovskaya studied a lot. She collected the secrets of the old masters works, sought old books. She is a real master now. She can emdroider a pattern in Chinese Satin-stitch, in Rococo and in many other styles.
Svetlana used materials of a superior quality for her embroidery. In the author's opinion, colouring plays a great role in the embroidery a patern in Satin-stitch. The expressive force of the picture depends on the colour. The pattern of the needlework can be spoilt if the colour of the thread doesn't suit it and vice versa.
S.Sokolovskaya pays much attention to the decorative embroidery, rococo for instance. This kind of embroidery helps her reproduce different kinds of flowers, roses, chrysanthemums, camomiles, etc.
The artist combines various kinds of embroidery technique so skilfully that she animates the pictures. The flowers look as if they are alive.
The delicate technique is still a small part of creating the art miniatures. The idea or motif goes first. The whole process of creating the picture takes a long period of time. At first the future work must be thought over thoroughly from the point of view of composition. Then goes the choice of colours. And after that the artist realizes the idea on the material with her technique.
The choice of an adequate frame for the picture is also of particular importance.
This is the way of creating a real picture with a needle and thread. It is to kind people for a lovely sight.
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ince 1991 S.Sokolovskaya has participated in the exhibitions that take place in Nizhny Novgorod Trade Fair. It was there where the Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamass Nicolas saw her needleworks for the first time. He blessed her saying: "You've got a gift by God, my dear, and skilful fingers. Don't skip creating." Several years have passed since that time. The artist has been awarded the letters of thanks recently for her participation in the exhibitions "Articles for all" (1995), "Handicrafts and Trades of Russia" (1996), "The Future of Russia" (1996), "Sole Proprietorship, Trades, Careers" (1997), "The Life Style - 99" (1999), "The Great Rivers - 99" (1999), "Russia on the Threshold of Centuries" (2000), "All-Russia Banking Forum" (2000).
ccording to S.Sokolovskaya's words, all the ideas and motives for her works are offered to her by Nature itself very rich in forms and in colours. She can watch and see the beauty of Nature everywhere and it inspires the master.
Among her works one can find landscapes, surprisingly poetical, some times a little bit naive and almost fantastic.
The creative work of S.Sokolovskaya is picturesquely and exactly called sometimes "The Music of Flowers". She has got a lot of them.
The alphabet of S.Sokolovskaya's flowers is incredible. In her mastership the symbolism of roses, lilies, forgets-me-not, daisies is linked with the emotional image of a flower which includes brightness and delicacy.
The harmony with herself and nature,
trauquility, conciliation and cosiness, that is what attracts to the pictures of S.Sokolovskaya in our noisy century. Her pictures should be thoroughly admired, without any haste to reveal the life in the embroidered lines, to realize the secret of this embroidered wonder filled with light, the sun and joy.
The technique of her work is perfect as well as everything she tries to do in her life. It is due to her talent that the old trade becomes the art and her emboidery - "the art of needlework".
"The Music of Flowers" of S.Sokolovskaya gain the power from day to day. It makes us wonder and fascinates by its fantastic sounds and fragrance.
