Svetlana Gonchar

Artist statement

Hello, I am glad to welcome you on my site,

Art has been living in my heart since childhood. I was only two years old making the world around me more beautiful: painting on wallpaper, coloring books and making compositions of ribbons, bows, etc. Art takes up most of the time in my life - in addition to creating my own paintings, I help people to discover the world of art, get in touch with the great mystery of creating masterpieces.

I study the relationship of the internal and external world: how something that we have within us affects the outside world and pur percetion of it. And vice versa, how the outside world affects our emotions, feeling, states. What comes first? Our mood and state or events of the external world? Can we change the world around us by working with ourselves, our psychology? I have a Master degree in psychology, and people often tell me that I draw not as an artist, but as a psychologist. Well, let it be so. Art helps me better understand my inner world, open up it to other people and share my experiences.
In 2017 I opened the School of Art Therapy, where people discover how to change their world through the deep work with feelings, emotions, internal states. The "Coaching in Colors" project helps participant to feel how they want to live his life, what he wants to feel every day. He puts on canvas new vision of his life. Picture he created remind him of the desired state and gives strength and energy in order to come to this state, inspires him to change and supports him in difficult times.

90% of the participants claim that they do not know how to draw and art is not for them. 70% of them, after the first workshop, buy easels, paints, canvases and start creating absolutely amazing works at home by themselfs. People's life is changing for the better in the first few months. Thus, the project "Coaching in colors" allows you to look into the hidden part of the psyche and receive powerful resources that are extremely important for change.
I am fascinated by changes in the project participants life. I have a plan to make the School of Art Therapy an international one, to encourage more and more people all over the world.

Art gives me a life full of inspiration and beauty.