Aquamarine by Nataliia Ivaniv
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $950.00 USD
Status: available
"Aquamarine" is an immersive abstract exploration of the Black Sea coast as seen through the lens of Odesa's maritime soul. Layers of turquoise, deep ultramarine, and seafoam green collide with sudden bursts of crimson and umber, evoking the raw energy of portside waves crashing against weathered iron and sun-bleached stone. The vigorous, gestural brushwork captures not just the color of the water, but its rhythm — the shifting tides, the salt-laden wind, and the fleeting reflections of harbor light. This original painting channels the specific luminosity of the Odesa shoreline, where the sea oscillates between tranquil aquamarine and stormy steel. A statement piece for collectors of contemporary marine abstraction, "Aquamarine" brings the meditative yet powerful presence of the sea into interior spaces. Signed on the back.
Why collect this work?
Dense turquoise and blue strokes are repeatedly interrupted by pale veils and small red accents, turning a marine palette into a field of friction rather than a conventional seascape.
- Ivaniv describes her practice as translating digital noise and urban structures into tactile painting. Here, stacked vertical marks can be read through that lens, although the artist’s description identifies the Black Sea coast as the immediate subject.
- In the photograph, broad diagonal sweeps press against upright, column-like passages. No horizon stabilizes the composition; instead, shifts between deep ultramarine, mint, grey and crimson suggest water, architecture and reflected light without resolving into a fixed view.
- The catalogue identifies acrylic on canvas at 60 by 80 cm. Acrylic permits opaque layering and sharp changes of direction, evident here in overlapping marks, while the photograph alone cannot confirm the surface’s exact relief or colour.
- Encountering this work within marine abstraction foregrounds how a coastal place may be constructed through broken rhythm and chromatic contrast, rather than through recognizable shoreline imagery.
About the Artist
Nataliia Ivaniv
Nataliia Ivaniv is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ivano-Frankivsk, UA.
Nationality: Ukrainian
I’m interested in color as a psychological space rather than decoration.
