Ella Kruglyanskaya paints bawdy portrayals of the female form
Latvia-born Ella Kruglyanskaya now lives and works in New York, depicting cartoon-like friends and “frienemies” out-and-about in large-scale oil paintings and murals. Ella’s work is packed with bawdy humour, exaggerated forms, exuberant mark-making and interactions. She describes her intention as “pictorial events… [that] aspire to an unspoken punch line” – the content, references and line-work all filtered through comedy.
Her work is incredibly entertaining, from the knobbly knees to the scary dresses adorned with the faces of angry, red-faced men. Ella takes the traditions of comic aesthetics and turns them on their head (shoulders, knees and toes) to great effect.
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Billie studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art before completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She joined It’s Nice That as a Freelance Editorial Assistant back in January 2015 and continues to work with us on a freelance basis.