The ‘Primal Universe’ of Russian Painter Ekatherina Savtchenko

Ed McCormick, Gallery & Studio, 1 Dec 2001
Now freed from their former geometric constraints, the figures in Savchenko’s Primal Universe series are as unfettered as the angelic beings of William Blake as they traverse luminous cosmic expanses built up with thickly encrusted pigmentations, ranging from molten red and yellow hue to deep, nocturnal blues.