Ekaterina Galera is a visual artist based in Toulouse, France. With a background in both language and design, her practice carries a literary sensitivity — attuned to rhythm, structure, and the unspoken. She approaches painting as a form of visual writing, where silence holds weight, gestures speak as clearly as words, and meaning emerges between the lines — like a visual poem built from absence, tension, and restraint.

Her works unfold slowly, through layering, rhythm, and gesture — quiet, tactile, and unresolved. She works primarily with raw canvas, wooden panels, dry pigments, and acrylics, often incorporating marble dust, vintage paper, and fragments of Japanese washi. These materials serve as both structure and voice, creating a vocabulary where texture, edge, and void become compositional elements.

Born in Russia and raised in Eastern Siberia, she carries with her the memory of vast horizons — where forest dissolves into steppe and seasons shift with sudden force. The muted earth tones and deep greens of that landscape still echo, quietly, through her work today.


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