Arina Gordienko hyperrealist oil painting The Vanished Summer, depicting a young woman with long blonde hair and piercing blue-grey eyes, wearing a vivid red embroidered shawl against a dark background, her expression solemn and introspective, capturing fleeting time and emotional depth.
Arina Gordienko hyperrealist oil painting The Vanished Summer, depicting a young woman with long blonde hair and piercing blue-grey eyes, wearing a vivid red embroidered shawl against a dark background, her expression solemn and introspective, capturing fleeting time and emotional depth.
Arina Gordienko hyperrealist oil painting The Vanished Summer, depicting a young woman with long blonde hair and piercing blue-grey eyes, wearing a vivid red embroidered shawl against a dark background, her expression solemn and introspective, capturing fleeting time and emotional depth.
Arina Gordienko hyperrealist oil painting The Vanished Summer, depicting a young woman with long blonde hair and piercing blue-grey eyes, wearing a vivid red embroidered shawl against a dark background, her expression solemn and introspective, capturing fleeting time and emotional depth.
Arina Gordienko

THE VANISHED SUMMER (One-Off)

Material: Oil on Belgian linen
Size: 140 x 100 cm
Date: 2022
Hand-signed on the back and on the side of the painting.
Provided with Certificate of Authenticity

This Painting
- Finalist of the BBA Art Prize, International Contemporary Art Contest, Berlin, Germany, 2025
- Exhibited at 10th Anniversary BBA Gallery Exhibition, Kuhlhouse, Berlin, Germany, 2025
- Exhibited at the Oxo Gallery, The British Art Prize exhibition, London, UK, 2025
- Finalist of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK, 2024
- Exhibited at Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK, 2024
- Winner of The British Art Prize, 3-d Award, London, UK, 2024
- Winner of The Pegasus Art Prize, London, UK, 2024
- Exhibited at The British Art Prize exhibition, Oxo Gallery, London, UK, 2024
- Winner of the Honourable Mention at ModPortrait International Portraiture Contest, 2022
- Exhibited at MEAM - European Museum of Modern Art, ModPortrait Exhibition, Barcelona, 2022
- Exhibited at Caja Rural de Aragon Palace, ModPortrait Exhibition, Zaragoza, Spain, 2022

Description
The Vanished Summer is a deeply personal work, born out of the universal experience of loss. It reflects that hollow ache when something - or someone - precious has gone forever. However full life may appear on the surface, nothing can quite fill that emptiness. The canvas holds that feeling of absence: a quiet space that lingers, haunting and unresolved.

The inspiration came from Arseny Tarkovsky’s poem Just Not Enough (Только этого мало), a piece that has stayed with the artist since adolescence. Tarkovsky’s words capture the same raw sense of yearning - the realisation that whatever remains, it will never replace what has vanished. His son, the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, often wove these poems into films such as Stalker and Solaris, where they carried the same rhythm of grief and beauty. That poetic cadence underpins this painting too.

The work has been widely celebrated, winning The British Art Prize and The Pegasus Art Prize in London, and reaching the finals of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition. It has been exhibited internationally - from Berlin’s BBA Gallery to Barcelona’s MEAM, and from Zaragoza to the Mall Galleries in London. Each showing extends the reach of its message, carrying its quiet resonance across borders.

Ultimately, The Vanished Summer is about memory, longing, and the fragile ways we carry absence with us. It invites the viewer to pause, reflect, and recognise the delicate balance between beauty and sorrow that defines the human condition.

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