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By CAROL LUCKING
Rappahannock News Special Writer • Ki Theatre’s Exchange Series will bring to life the reflections, through poetry and paintings, of Russia, past and present on Sunday, Feb. 21.
Rapahannock resident Robin Purnell will show slides of her artwork that received considerable recognition at two extra-ordinary exhibits in St. Petersburg.
She will be joined by poet and friend Maryanne Ozernoy who emigrated to the U.S. in 1986.
Robin describes the images she sought to paint while living in Moscow in the early 80’s and again after perestroika as her “search for beauty.” c, “I wasn’t certain what I would find when I arrived in Russia. It was more horrible and ugly than I had imagined,” she said. 1 Modern high rises were being fiuilt for 20 miles outside the cities to pccomodate the overpopulation problem, she said. • ; Quaint villages were being torn down and replaced with endless concrete apartments with no grass or trees; horrendous living conditions .for the people were everywhere, she added. • ' She painted images of the contrasting beauty she saw from the pre-revolutionary period. “Amidst ■the sprawling ugliness there were •beautiful old buildings, museums, old faces of simple peasant women, 'little villages from the previous era that depicted history. All this became my subject matter,” she said. !, As the wife of an American diplomat whose job it was to preserve human ■ rights, Robin met many persecuted Jews, underground artists and their families.
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