Nina Gamsachurdia transforms precious materials such as lapis lazuli, gold, and malachite into luminous emanations of the transcendent. Her works refer to the eternal. The light that emanates from her works is a symbol of the sacred. At the same time, her modern sacred art is very sensual. Her works are not only meant to be admired, but also to be touched, like traditional icons, which were not intended to be hung on walls, but worn on the body.

Nina Gamsachurdia's painting goes back to Byzantine painting and deals with major religious-philosophical themes such as birth, transformation, grace, and ecstasy.

Originally from Georgia, artist, art historian, and restorer Nina Gamsachurdia paints exclusively with natural pigments. All pictures are painted on wooden panels and cloth. The artist produces the lightfast colors in the traditional way, by hand or in a stone mill, from genuine gemstones and minerals such as jasper, malachite, onyx, pyrite, diamond, opal, sodalite, cinnabar, rhodochrosite, etc. The colors have a special value, luminosity, and effect and are preserved with a varnish made from various oils and resins such as dammar, myrrh, amber, etc., so that they can be touched by hand.

Many of the minerals she uses have varying degrees of magnetic resonance, which means that they expand the spectrum of perception. It takes time to feel the vibration of the stones; you have to touch them, get close to them. You have to open yourself up to them and find inner peace. Nina Gamsachurdia's works are meditative, or rather contemplative – both in terms of their effect and the process of their creation. Everything takes time: the lengthy priming of the wood used as a picture carrier, the production of the color pigments, and the layering of the artwork, starting with the primer and ending with the varnish and the final grainy mica.
In addition to paintings on wood, Nina Gamsachurdia also creates objects and reliefs, whose flowing form she achieves by priming loose, unstretched linen in several layers with marble, chalk, sometimes alabaster and glue, then covering it with precious metals such as gold and platinum.

The artist explains her art in the following words: "I learned (and am still learning) all my techniques, approach, color symbolism, etc. from the world of Byzantine art. This is my starting point. I am also a researcher and write regularly about the theological and symbolic foundations of art. Everything I do is very personal. But I process my personal emotional experiences in such a way that they become ‘universally valid’. What interests me is the spiritual world, within us and around us." In this respect, Nina Gamsachurdia is an extraordinary, courageous artist who restores the spiritual dimension to art.