ABOUT ME

I’ve always been fascinated by painting, since early childhood. I can’t even recall the moment when I wasn’t painting something. The real interest in fine art was instilled to me by my teachers in the art school. They recommended me to enter the Art college named after Shadr, but I opted for the designer job.

Having graduated with distinction from the Design department of Ural Academy of Architecture and Art in 1999, I started working in this area. After 20 years of successful work, I founded my own interior
design company.

Nevertheless, painting has always been something that inspired me. For the last 5 years I’ve been developing in different ways: attended workshops of both local and foreign artists, copied the paintings displayed in the Hermitage, completed a course in the summer school of the academy named after Repin, mastered my skills in a private art studio in Ekaterinburg.

This way of learning art allowed me to broaden my horizons, to accumulate valuable experience and hold my first personal exhibition this year. I am eager to follow this exciting path in the future.

My pictures are paintings of mood, impressions and state of a person in a variety of situations. The main thing for me is not only to depict a story, but to add a visual metaphor. A Woman is the main character of all of them. Currently, all my paintings can be divided into 3 groups. The first one is where a female image is collective and generalising, archetypical, for instance, in ‘’ Frosty morning and frosty evening ’’ and ‘’Music of the wind’’. Here I convey the impression, emotions of the moment. The second group is the image of the woman and her family, her relations with surrounding people, when the real-life events are visualised as a lyrical plot. And the third group is based on a famous image but depicted through the prism of my perception, for instance, The abduction of Europa. The diptych ‘’Frosty morning and frosty evening ’’ is a mood painting reflecting the theme of our Ural winter. This part of the diptych conveys the state of an early icy morning, when you can hear the snow crunching under your valenki (traditional Russian winter boots made of felted wool) and the frost tingles your face. The hunter has already checked the animal traps and, feeling a bit cold, he is coming home where he will find hot tea and warm conversations near the wood stove. The second part of this diptych – evening- conveys the feeling of twilight time, when a short winter day comes to an end with a long dense evening, the family gets together around the table, hunters are back home and the pleasure of a long warm evening near the wood stove is in the air.

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