Artist Statement

Maria Doulatova works in mixed media—oil, oil pastel, pencil, watercolor, and marker—building surfaces over months or years. Many pieces incorporate her childhood drawings, which she reworks, obscures, or collages into new compositions.

The paintings construct psychological territories where past and present selves create a cacophony. Bold brushwork is applied against delicate pencil lines. Bright colors cut through blacks. Surfaces accumulate dried paint, marks, and layered interventions.

These are sites of confrontation rather than resolution. Calm exteriors conceal rupture. Bodies fragment or multiply. Memory invades rather than preserves. Moods find form, take shape, and recycle their maker.

Doulatova's work has been exhibited at Clayton Fine Arts Gallery (St. Louis, 2016) and Gallery Black Lagoon (Austin, 2013).