ALINA EYDEL

ALINA EYDEL
Alina Eydel is now 21 years old and living, learning and creating in Naples, Florida where she is a 4th year student at Florida Gulf Coast University, majoring in Fine Art. Ms. Eydel was born in Russia in 1989 where her parents were educated as designers in one of the finest art schools in Russia. Alina’s mother, Lana, studied interior design and Lana’s father, Igor, studied graphic design. Difficult economic and political times motivated the Eydels to immigrate with Alina to the United States when she was just two years old.

 

Artist’s Statement
“I consider my paintings surrealism. Even though they are figurative and sometimes concerned with costume design, I juxtapose and blend unexpected symbols to form new meanings. Even something as lighthearted as a palm tree dress is my expression of how I understand the world around me.”

 

 

Alina Eydel exaggerates the contemporary perceptions of aesthetics and synthesizes them with her own impressions and experiences, especially from traveling and observing nature. Her surrealistic approach allows her to express experiences and ideas through unexpected combinations of elements that carry personal significance for her, such as flowers fused with skyscrapers or architecture with the human body. She further explores elegance, as well as her heritage, by using the ancient idea of Byzantine mosaic, hence the name of her unique technique, “Mosaic on Canvas”. Rather than using traditional mosaics, she gives her figurative, acrylic-on-canvas paintings a modern and unique twist, incorporating precious and semi-precious materials, which already imply treasure in themselves, and gluing and varnishing glass beads, Swarovski crystals, fresh-water pearls, corals, and turquoise.