Abstracts in Fiber Fine Art
Svetlana Turov is a contemporary artist working at the intersection of fiber, painting, and sculpture. Her practice explores the tactile and structural possibilities of textile as a medium for abstraction, building works that read simultaneously as compositions and as objects.
Turov has developed a distinctive visual language rooted in the language of weaving, stitching, and layered surface. Her abstracts move between geometric rigor and organic gesture. Fields of woven texture are interrupted by spontaneous mark making, raw edges, and deliberate imperfections that recall painterly process.
๐๐ซ๐๐ค๐๐ง | Fiber | Size: H21โณxW21โณ | 2026
A crimson kraken rises from the lower depths of the composition, its tentacles reaching across the surface as though claiming the entire ocean for itself. In the upper left corner a sun burns through the chaos, casting bands of colour that streak across the work in every direction. These bands read simultaneously as waves, as currents, and as raw marine energy released from beneath the surface. The palette is deliberately psychedelic: intense reds against electric blues, passages of gold cutting through violet, the kind of colour that the eye encounters not in ordinary daylight but in the heightened clarity of a dream or a myth.
The kraken itself is less a creature than a force. It does not swim so much as expand, filling the space the way ink fills water. The felted surface gives the figure a physical weight that a painted kraken would never possess. Wool fibres compress into the dense red of the body, then loosen and scatter outward where the tentacles dissolve into the surrounding sea. The result is a work that sits between narrative and abstraction: there is a creature, there is an ocean, there is a sun, but none of them behave the way nature intended. This is the ocean as felt from within, not observed from the shore.
๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ขรณ๐ง ๐รญ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ | Fiber | Size: H21โณxW21โณ | 2022
This work was born from the memory of Chilean summers, where the northern and central regions swing between extremes that the body never quite gets used to. By day the sun flattens everything into white heat and the air itself seems to vibrate with colour. By night the temperature drops sharply and the landscape retreats into silence. The coloured bands that sweep across this composition carry both of those states at once: the hot yellows and reds of midday pressing against cooler blues and blacks that arrive after sundown.
There is no horizon line, no figure, no landmark. The surface is pure energy translated into fibre, a record of what the air feels like rather than what the land looks like. The felted wool holds these contrasts without resolving them, just as the Chilean sky holds its heat and its cold in the same twenty four hours without apology.
Regatta. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ | Fiber | Size: H24โณxW30โณ | 2024
Regatta. The California Current belongs to my Regatta subseries within the Abstract series, inspired by the Pacific Ocean and the vibrant sails that ride its powerful current. The work captures the spirit of a regatta yet turns it into abstraction, where triangular sails become signs of movement, freedom, and collective rhythm. I chose bright psychedelic colors to convey the seaโs energy, with vivid reds, yellows, and deep blues suggesting warmth, vitality, and solace at once. I hope viewers feel both exhilaration and serenity, as if carried by ocean breeze into boundless space without a horizon. I work in Fiber Fine Art because the medium builds texture and depth that change with the light, creating surfaces that echo the unpredictability of waves and the living rhythm of water. Accented with natural gemstones for depth and radiance. Framed and ready to hang, created with archival materials for lasting Fine Art value and integrity. The composition invites close and slow contemplation.