BIO
This talent for transforming the well-known techniques and potential of painting into a peculiar sign language for gobelin and batik is what makes Sona Banoyan’s art truly original and unique.
Sona Banoyan possesses an enviable devotion to the art of decorative textile- gobelin and batik
She is one of the few artists who can at once perceive the features and laws peculiar to this art and refrain from turning the gobelin into one of the varieties of easel painting. The artist has detected the slender and almost transparent border which draws the distinction between them, meanwhile not banning the use of related forms.
​ Sona’s sharp newness is also hidden in her collage thinking, which is found to be quite modern today. Banoyan manages to be traditional without repeating traditions and modern without losing the bond with traditions.
Although extremely busy, Sona Banoyan manages to combine what seemed to be uncombinable. She has been teaching children at the National Centre of Aesthetics for many years now. But the complexity of her reasoning is not a hurdle on the way to the right contact with the child, to the right intonation combined with the individual approach to every single child. And that is why the works of her students never resemble those of the tutor. Sona simply purges them of the stereotypes of thinking and at the same time encourages them to be daring, sincere and to love the homeland.
Possessing such a wide grasp, she doesn’t aim at clarity of meaning. Sona’s language is full of puzzles calling for answers, nevertheless it is not hard to perceive the link between the silhouettes of birds, animals, dinosaurs, humans, flowers, if you can find the right key to her art one may sometimes want to name it “modernized archaic.”
But what is primary in Sona’s art is that one can always sense some wonderful and discreet elegance of tone, which makes the concreteness of the text secondary.