Irena Tone Art

Worldwide represented, award-winning artists, and international open calls finalists, Irena Tone and Ros Kozhman are working together, creating art as a creative couple.

Born in Ukraine, artists identify themselves as cosmopolitan artists and during the last 6 years had art practice and workshops in Israel (Haifa), Ukraine (Kyiv), England (London), and Spain (Valencia). Now artists are based and work in Spain.

Irena and Ros often make a non-standard presentation of everyday life in their work. By hyperbolizing, making simple or using metaphors they propose you take a fresh look at the nature of familiar things. The colour and texture intuition helps Irena and Ros to create the right tone looks. They primarily use pure and rich primary colours generously adding to them metallic shining, using gold and silver paint and metal leaves. They working on figurative and abstract figurative, with thematic series and middle formats.

Understanding the material's nature and physical processes helps them to use the different media types in the works. Creating handmade paintings, graphics, sculptures, planters, candleholders and interior art products, artists are working with acrylic, steel, metal, texture paste and marble.

Artworks created by Irena and Ros are in the private home collections and presented in interior shops and online platforms Worldwide, in Europe, the USA, and Asia countries.


CV
2021 - Founding of Arty Lifestyle and Home Interior Brand IRENA TONE, Valencia, Spain
2021 - Founding of TONERA Online Art Gallery, London, the UK
2020 - Global Talent Visa the UK, in the field of arts and culture
2020 - Endorsement from Arts Council England

SOLO SHOWS:
2020 - Solo Show 'Opacity', Direct Art Action UK, Birmingham, the UK
2018 - Solo show 'Dogs, art and event space 'TAILS', Haifa, Israel
2018 - Solo show 'Cities and Places', art and event space 'TAILS', Haifa, Israel

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2020 - 2022 - Sculptures Exposition in Mandarin Maison, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 - Group Show ARTBOX.PROJECT, Barcelona, Spain
2020 - POP-UP Exhibition and event dedicated to rewarding WOMAN ESSENCE 2020 in Spivakovska ART: EGO gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 - 1 of 18 Finalists with sculpture 'Hashtag' for Group Show 'INNER WORLD',
Boomer Gallery, London, the UK
2020 - 1 of 10 Finalists with sculpture ‘Paper Pin’ for Group Show ARTBOX.PROJECT
Barcelona 1.0 2020, Barcelona, Spain
2020 - Finalist with paintings 'Iceberg' and 'Asphalt' for Group Show
WOMAN'S ESSENCE 2020, Palazzo Velli, Rome, Italy
2020 - Finalist with paintings 'Melted Ice-Cream' and 'Asphalt 2.0' for Group Show
'SANSARA', Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 - Group Show "Krjukrinoksy" in 'Zdes na Taganke', Moscow, Russia
2019-2020 - Group Exhibition '10/1', 10 Gallery, Crimea
2019 - Group Show 'RETHINK IT', TI`ART Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Group Show 'Not all that...', Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum, Moscow, Russia
2020 - Online Group Exhibition ⚬Dot⚬Dot-Dash, SURFACE GALLERY,
Nottingham, the UK

AWARDS:
2020 - Award WOMAN'S ESSENCE 2020, MUSA International art Space
in collaboration with Center for UNESCO Bologna, Palazzo Velli, Rome, Italy
2020 - Special Recognition Award, "All Women" Art Exhibition, Painting & Other Media,
artwork "Pencils", LightSpace Time Art, USA

ART COACHING:
2020 - Educational Intensive 'Exhibition Abroad' in collaboration with
'Workshop Rich Artist' Educational Centre, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Lecture Do it yourself: website for an artist without web studio',
15 Nov 2019, Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum, Moscow, Russia

SUPERVISION:
2018 - Supervision of Exhibition and Performance ‘We love The Beatles’,
art and event space TAILS, Haifa, Israel
2018 - Supervision of Photo exhibition of photographer Yurij Shepelev,
art and event space TAILS, Haifa, Israel

ART EDUCATION:
2020 - London Art College, Colour Awareness Course,
taught by Alan Dedman, UK

SELECTED SUPPLEMENTARY ART COURSES:
2020 - 'Culture & Creativity', British Council, Introduction to Cultural Journalism Online Course.
2019 - 'Central Saint Martins College', Introduction to Illustration Course,
taught by Leni Kauffman, UK
2019 - 'Chelsea College of Arts', Interior Lighting Design Course,
taught by Debbie Blandford, UK
2019 - 'Workshop Rich Artist' Educational Centre, Himself a curator:
to organize an exhibition, Russia
2017-2018 - 'Kalacheva Art School', Watercolor Painting Course,
Extreme Sketching Course, City Sketching Course, Russia

EDUCATION:
2004 – 2008 – European University, Economics and Entrepreneurship,
Bachelor's Degree in Marketing with honours, Ukraine
2008 – 2009 – Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman,
Marketing, Master's Degree in Marketing with honours, Ukraine