Victoria Obolensky
Exhibiting with Ad Lib Gallery at Affordable Art Fair Battersea, March 2025
Victoria Obolensky’s paintings have become highly sought after. Her work has been purchased worldwide by high profile collectors including Prince Albert II of Monaco, Ralph Lauren and Joely Richardson, and her paintings have regularly been featured in Vanity Fair, Tatler and The Sunday Times.
Victoria was selected to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art Summer Show in 2019. She has exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea in 2002 & 2018, and at the Royal College of Art and Mall Galleries (Art For Youth) on several occasions.
View a selection of Victoria’s works below ↓
Artist’s Statement
“My subject since 2001 has been water and the natural world. I have always been drawn to water since as long as I can remember… it feels like home.
I attended Chelsea College of Art in 1996 as a mature student. Upon graduating my first passion was photography and my first exhibitions were of photography of water. The prints attracted enormous publicity and attention. Joely Richardson became a patron, purchasing and commissioning many pieces. I moved to the South of France in 2003. The photography began to take a different direction and it was then that I began to paint more. I was given a huge commission to create large abstract paintings which are currently on permanent display at the Kensington and Chelsea public libraries.
When I resumed painting full time in 2019 I used meditation music to help influence the painting process, the journey in the last couple of years has been simply extraordinary.
I now reside in Devon, painting daily, creating commissioned work and realist waterscapes or landscapes. My aim with the paintings is not only to encapsulate the essence of water and the natural world but to inspire others and to bring them a knowing calm.”
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