Artist
About vanLanigh
Van Lanigh is a Russian artist based in the Netherlands. She had a tough childhood with abusive parents and made her first attempt to run away from home when she was seven. Escaping reality into an imaginary world helped her deal with anxiety. This developed into a strong spatial visualisation ability, which helped her become the youngest student at a local art school. At sixteen, she left home for the last time to start an artistic career, and two years later moved to the Netherlands. Releasing her emotions into her work connects realism and abstractionism through the lens of the subconscious to achieve superconsciousness.
Her work deals with a continuous search to find peace in chaos. Abstract art is not enough to depict the complexity of our world and mind. And beyond that psychological, subjective perspective, Metarealism was born. She defines Metarealism as the multi-dimensional perception of reality in the search for the feeling of subconscious happiness, which became the core idea of her work.
