About Alena
Bio
Creativity has always been part of Alena’s world. Growing up surrounded by art and music, she developed a natural connection to visual expression that remained with her even as her professional path led into the corporate IT field.
For more than ten years, painting continued alongside her career, gradually becoming not just a practice but a necessity. The desire to create eventually outweighed the security of structure, and she chose to leave corporate life to devote herself entirely to art.
Today, working under the studio name Alena Fine Art in Southern California, she creates large-scale abstract paintings using water and gravity as collaborators, allowing each work to unfold organically. Her paintings carry a sense of movement, depth, and stillness—inviting the viewer to pause, reflect, and experience the work rather than simply observe it.
I once believed life worked best when everything was defined in advance. Plans, timelines, safeguards—every move calculated. The part of me that needed precision thought control was the same as security, and that success came from eliminating uncertainty.
Abstraction dismantled that belief. On the canvas, water has its own direction, pigment has its own language, and no amount of planning can force the two into obedience. In the beginning, that lack of control felt like resistance. Over time, it became freedom.
Philosophy
Painting has taught me that letting go is not weakness; it is a form of strength. Trust opens possibilities that control can never reach. That lesson extends far beyond the studio. Life unfolds in ways we cannot script, yet the path carries us forward, shaping us into something richer than we could have designed.
My work is an expression of that understanding—grace emerging from movement, balance arising from unpredictability, and beauty that exists because it was allowed to, not forced. On large-scale canvases, that surrender becomes visible, layered in movement, depth, and presence.
