Inessa Garder is a Russian-born painter who travels the world, uniting cultures through art. Growing up in Novosibirsk, Siberia, the vast white canvas of Russian winter made her long to see the world in all its colours and cultures. She...
Read MoreInessa Garder is a Russian-born painter who travels the world, uniting cultures through art. Growing up in Novosibirsk, Siberia, the vast white canvas of Russian winter made her long to see the world in all its colours and cultures. She began her career as an architect in Milan, then Moscow and subsequently in London. In 2016, she entered a group exhibition, TRIBE #16, in London with her City Stream Series interpreting cities as unified fields of personal experiences of each and every citizen together.
She went on exhibiting in London with Focus LDN "Londoner's Compass" and TRIBE #17, exploring the urban environment and social narrative of London. This inexhaustible city gave her a start as an artist as well as an obsession with contemporary painting techniques: mixing them together and inventing new ones.
In 2019, Inessa travelled to India to study yoga and meditation only to find it was the very source of the concept of unity that she had been looking for through the lens of her art in the cities. Her Indian project, Ganga Aarti, mixed painting and film to explore water as the means for a breakaway from Time and for finding connection and healing. It was exhibited during the Rishikesh International Film Festival in March 2020 in India.
Inessa stayed in India for 2,5 years and went on to create one more series of paintings called "The Sacred Summer”, which was exhibited during “Open Arts Fest” in 2020, that was self-organised by the international group of artists in the Sant Sewa Ashram in Rishikesh and attracted over a 1000 visitors from all around India.
On the 11th of November 2021 Inessa’s online solo show "Sacred Love” was presented by the Nehru Cultural Centre, London. It features the collection of Inessa's Indian works made in 2019-2021.
