Hello! My name is Natalya. I'm from Russia.                                                                                                                                                                      I love art in all its forms!

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There were no painters in our family. But my great-                                                                                                  grandfather on my father`s side worked as a cabinetmaker                                                                                                  and carved furniture and animal figures from wooden                                                                                                        boards. Both of my grandmothers embroidered. My                                                                                                        grandfather on my mother's side was into photography.

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I was born in Arsenyev.

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As a child, I spent hours looking at pictures of great artists                                                                                                  in magazines, studied their biographies and learned to                                                                                                  draw on my own. When I was five years old, my mother                                                                                                    brought me to an art studio, and later I continued my education at  Fine Arts Department of the Ulyanovsk School of Arts.  At that time, I was interested in many things: sculpting, pyrography, embroidery, woodenware painting, pencil, ink , and gouache drawing.

During my school years, I actively participated in poster contests. I dreamed of attending an Art Institute. But...

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After graduating from the Pedagogical University and having received a specialty - a teacher of handicraft and general  l technical disciplines, I started working in a secondary school as a teacher of drawing and was also a leader of the painting club. Moreover, I was involved in wall painting.

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After receiving my second education, I took a few years break from art and  plunged into the economics. But when my daughter was born, I started painting again.

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One day, I decided to return to my long-held dream of painting with oils on canvas, so I bought tubes of oil paint and ready-made canvases and began to experiment. My first paintings were awkward and unsophisticated. But that didn`t stop me.

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In 2016, I began to study the basics of artistic literacy, composition, and color science on my own. I was interested  in painting techniques of  various masters, explored different art materials and invented my own painting method.  

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My works include landscapes, still lifes, thematic paintings, flowers and some illustrations. Apart from that, I  am  passionate about  embroidery, making decorative flowers out of ribbon and tissue, designing, and writing fairy tales.