Mussoorie, Russia born, Elena Wadehra made Landour, Mussoorie her home in the year 2014, when she married a Sikh gentleman Romy Wadehra and settled here.
Painting is in the lady’s genes. Her paternal grandfather, Mikhail Tobolski was a Soviet artist who worked magic with oil paints. A self-taught artist Mikhail painted portraits and made copies of famous paintings as well. Naturally, since a child, Elena too had a flair of expressing herself in Art. A talent she enhanced under her Russian art teachers.
While acrylic paints are Elena’s medium of expression, she has her own unique style, which borders with quaint, whimsical artwork. Most of her artwork is a trip down memory lane, inspired by childhood memories of festivities in Russia.
Elena captures emotions and depicts them beautifully through her canvas, giving them endearing names such as, The Gift; Dreaming Girl, Angle of Peace, Angle of Joy, Enamored Bear and so on and so forth. Mythical characters such as Unicorns, Elves come to life in her work transporting her clients to a world of fantasy.
Romy, her encouraging husband tells us, “because of her I have started understanding art, I appreciate it more. My limited knowledge of painters and paintings has increased. I am more aware now and understand the effort that goes into making a single canvas.”
Talking to Newspost, Elena tells us how a 30 cm x 30cm canvas takes one week to a month to turn out, the way it does. “I feel obsessed and excited when an idea for a painting comes to me. I forget eating, drinking and am totally engrossed in it till its completed.”
At present, the talented lady is busy illustrating and collaborating with two American children book authors. Based on her paintings, Elena has readied a set of six Christmas postcards. Decorative and collector postcards are a must-have this festive season, available at local stores and online too.
Elena Wadehra artwork can be viewed on Instagram: ElenaDreamArt.
