Colorful painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova
Born May 1, 1963 in the heart of Mountain Shoria, Kuzbass region of Russia, Lyubov Arbachakova is a renowned Shor painter, graphic artist and poet. A researcher of Shor heroic epic, she is a candidate of philological sciences, a member of the Union of Artists (2005) and the Union of Russian Writers (1997).
She grew up in a small Siberian village of Anzass (Kemerovo region) among amazingly beautiful and majestic mountain taiga.
According to art critics and viewers of her personal exhibitions, her paintings radiate some kind of extraordinary energy and heat. Bright and sunny, almost all of her pictures have a plot. As it turned out, they are like the parable in paint, an unheard vision and a sense of peace. Her paintings require from the viewer an intuitive and emotional empathy, because it is the world of intimate confessional thoughts and feelings painted on canvas.

Private collectors from Russia, USA, Germany and Turkey purchased her paintings. She illustrated the book “Shor language in pictures,” for which she received a diploma of the 1st degree (2002). In addition, she designed books of Shor poets: NE Belchegeshev, t. B. Tudegeshev and GV Kostochakov.

Painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova

The basic image-symbols of her paintings are central worldview in the traditional folklore of Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia – bear, bird, horse, deer, yurt, and the family tree. The function of these characters – to embody specially coded information that serves as a means of storing it, stockpiling, transferring, and enabling people to negotiate their collective activity goals.
For example, the image of a bird as a symbol of the upper world. Also, a symbol of dreams, successfully accompanying mankind since ancient times, from the folklore of the Firebird to Bluebird by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova