Kateryna Shadrina is known for her bold expressive use of unconventional palettes like the red, green, and purple with rich mixing of colors, but in her “Denial of Peter”, we see more muted colors, perhaps giving us te dark side of this Apostle. Immediatly was he asking himslef, will the Lord ever forgive me? Had he then remembered all that Jesus had told him in terms of love- His great love for us all?
In Veil of Veronica we see Jesus again in the martyrs' red while other figures more muted tones. In the descent from the Cross most color is gone- to show us the life blood of our Savior is depleted. Kateryna uses color to portray the mood of each mystery, as seen by these icons.
Her
exhibition at Iconart Gallery, Lviv, in 2022, entitled “Victima” reflected her
views on sacrifice, faith, and love.
“Where there is true love, there will always be a place for sacrifice. Sacrifice can be considered as the level at which the power of love is measured. And the standard in this is God – the perfection of love. He sacrificed the most precious thing for our hope. But in our pragmatic world, it is very difficult to weigh the pros and cons so that one’s sacrifice is not made in vain. We are focused on the terrestrial things, we catch the moment and don’t know exactly whether to think about the salvation of the soul and the kingdom of heaven.”
