VIKTORIJA PELSE

Sculptor Viktorija Pelse (born 1936 in Moscow) has graduated sculpture department in 1967 in Latvia Art Academy. Viktorija Pelse works with different materials: bronze, marble, china, chamotte, plaster. Artist makes torsos, nude figures and animalias most of all. Viktorija Pelse has made monumental works (her diploma work "Lepoards" (1967), made in plaster, in Viesturdarzs, Riga) and also small size works. Viktorija Pelse`s works characterize plastic extent, contrast between smooth and facturated surface, pictorials nexus with nature.
"Working at my sculptures I try to find harmony in myself, in the sculpture, in society, in what we call the surroundings, and harmony in the interrelationship of all the above mentioned phenomena", says Viktorija Pelse

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