Zhyldyz Bekova

Zhyldyz Bekova is a painter artist and digital illustrator from Kyrgyzstan. She was born in 1990 to a family of artists. She graduated from the Kyrgyz State Art College, specializing in artistic textiles. Then she studied at the Kyrgyz-Russian University of Architecture, majoring in design-architecture. She has always been attracted to brushes, paint, canvas. She likes to hold a brush and see her thoughts and fantasies come true. In her subjects she uses themes from the myths, customs and traditions of the Turkic ethnic peoples of Central Asia. Zhyldyz Bekova likes to convey Kyrgyz national motifs using a unique cultural heritage. Her ancestors had a rich spiritual heritage - shamans, healers and diviners. One of them was her great-grandmother, her grandmother and her aunt took up the baton. They are called soothsayers. She spent her entire childhood in that environment; that's where her attraction to mystical stories and otherworldly visions comes from. She wants to convey in her paintings her heritage, the time, the man and his place in this system of values. Using subjects about nomads, children of the mountains and steppes, with a touch of folklore and mystical themes. Trying to reproduce a cultural code and form a visual identity from it, combining genres and trends. Her path as a painter artist began in 2020, and she has constantly participated in various international and national exhibitions.