Larissa Eremeeva | The Thought That Tried To Get Away

Larissa Eremeeva — The Thought That Tried To Get Away

Larissa Eremeeva was born in the Soviet Union, studied art in Belgium, and has since lived and worked in the Netherlands, the United States, and Italy, where her studio occupies the grand drawing room of a palazzo in Abruzzo. These accumulated geographies have shaped a practice driven by themes of transience, impermanence, and the texture of memory — literary influences running from Marcel Proust and Fernando Pessoa to Boris Pasternak alongside painterly ones from Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas, and Richard Diebenkorn. Her work has been sold to collectors across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Eremeeva describes her practice as “evocative abstract”: large-format oil paintings built up in multiple layers, augmented with sand, charcoal, and graphite, designed not to explain themselves but to invite the viewer in — to evoke objects, feelings, and memories that belong as much to the person looking as to the artist who made the work. The Thought That Tried To Get Away is characteristic of this approach: loose, gestural passages of sage green and cream are cut through with energetic linear marks in yellow-green and charcoal, the composition feeling simultaneously still and in motion, as if catching a thought at the exact moment it begins to dissolve.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Oil on canvas
126 x 126 cm
Signed by the artist
Unique work