Artist Mayya Lobova is ‘Inspired by Guyana’

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Mayya Lobova, who has worked in Guyana over a period of four years, is showing her paintings in an exhibition, ‘Inspired by Guyana’, which opened last Thursday at Castellani House.
According to a press release from Castellani House, the thirty-three paintings, on display in Castellani House’s ground floor galleries, show the artist’s enthusiastic response to the flora, fauna and landscape of Guyana, which she discovered for the first time in beginning work as a translator/interpreter stationed in the Berbice River area of Region Ten.

Artist Mayya Lobova
‘Pomeroon River’ (2011)
‘The Kaieteur Falls’ (2012)

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and with parents who had been artists, Mayya earned a degree in African studies before coming to Guyana in 2006 for 2 years, followed by a second two-year period to the present, which saw her beginning her paintings of forest animals-large and small-plant life, landscapes and symbolic ‘tributes’ to persons and places.
Paintings range from a black and yellow series, including renderings of the “Anaconda and Harpy Eagle”, “Armadillos in the Grass”, “Fern Trees” and “Forest Floor”, and later paintings in a wider palette including a plumed rooster “Calling for Morning”, a tribute to South America, “Flowers of the Atacama”, landscape renderings of the Kanuku mountains, and, in a technique of paint applied in dots of colour, views of Kaieteur Falls, the Essequibo forests  and Linden (‘On the Way to Linden’), as well as several of animals.
Other works include the dreaming figure “The Beautiful Guyana” and her most recent “Jungle Portraits”, of a jaguar and eagle, and the howler and squirrel monkeys.
The exhibition is open to the public and will continue until October 27. Admission is free and gallery hours are Monday to Friday from 10:00 hours to 17:00 hours, and Saturdays from 14:00 hours to 18:00 hours; the gallery is closed on Sundays and holidays.
On October 11, Lobova will give a Gallery Talk and Power Point presentation on her work at 17:00 hours at the National Gallery on Vlissengen Road. The public is cordially invited to attend this event.

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