A native of Santander and Californian by birth, Adolfo Estrada first discovered his painting and later the painting. He painted and drew following this interior need akin to those who believe that the creative act serves to give testimony of him. He painted and drew maybe without knowing that such an activity had to do with what we call Fine Arts. One day, he became acquainted with the painting of the young masters of the forties: Alvaro Delgado, Pedro Bueno, Martínez Bull, García Ochoa...I suppose that the formal distortions, the aggressiveness of color of some of them would fill him with astonishment. All this happened in the days in which Proel, the poetical magazine and art venue, was initiating the task of updating the inhabitants of Santander on issues of the arts. I suppose that Adolfo Estrada would be very surprised by the aesthetics of, for example, Aguayo, Lagunas and the members of the “zaragozano Pórtico”. Or by Tàpies in his stage of magic priest of the “Dau al Set”, as well as, by Willy Baumeister and Carla Prina. His artistic apprenticeship consisted of the contemplation of the works of these and other contemporary painters as well as the publicity drawings that were his “modus vivendi” at that time.

Other works, he took from the highland landscape of Cantabria, from the silver shine of the bay, from the whitish light, like that of water with anise beading through the windowpanes, lightly moistening a few objects placed on a table. A colorless light, which extinguishes the stridencies of the contrasting tones and at the same time, enriches the hues.

My work with encaustic seems like a fusion of many of my past art explorations; which included ceramics, papermaking, printmaking, photography and mixed media collage. There is a sensuality of material and a sense of partnership with the medium that is integral to my enjoyment of the process and to the success of any piece. It is tactile, malleable and rich and also allows the delight of using a fragrant byproduct of the interaction of bees with flowers. It feels akin to cooking, creating a surface that often exudes an edible quality. Unpredictable and surprising effects happen frequently and there is a constant interplay between transparency, opacity, layering and subtle dimensionality. By combining drawing and paper with wax the potential of this interplay seems infinitely expanded.

Most of the recent images ( 2008 Gallery 1 and 2009 Gallery) are from a group of artworks I’ve been calling “The String Series.” In this series, delicate line and cursive doodle are used to imply the ever-changing unraveling world, a body individual and global, constantly unmade and remade, transitory and tenuous. Each piece features a hand gesture, which symbolizes the actor, the doer, the energy that effects and takes action on its environment. Together, line and gesture form a visually compelling work, rich with shifting metaphors and compound meaning.

Hopefully, my work, while created to explore my own interests and inner narratives, is broad enough that others are able to draw pleasure and meaning from the images. The world seems to me mysterious, lush and lovely, dangerous, disquieting and complex and we all totter and balance and dance under a strange accretion of emotion and sensation, culture, memories and media. In the making of these objects I endeavor to expose a moment of that mystery and create a sense of both recognition and visual satisfaction."

I began my career in the arts as a studio furniture maker in 1976. My furniture and sculpture have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Fair, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Fair, Funeria in San Francisco, and the John Elder Gallery in New York.

In 1993 I began painting, working with Elizabeth Lentz, Jacob Cooley and Beverly McIver. I had my first solo show of paintings in 2001 at Hager Smith Design Gallery in Raleigh. Since then, I have had solo shows every year, and regularly participate in juried and invitational group shows. My work has been featured in arts magazines and on book covers.

My awards include painting fellowships at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. I continue woodworking, accepting commissions and creating new work for galleries and exhibitions. I also teach woodworking and painting workshops. I have taught at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Arrowmont School of Crafts in Tennessee, and Peters Valley Craft Center in New Jersey and assisted at Haystack in Maine, the Durham Arts Council, the Pocosin Arts Center in Columbia, North Carolina, and a woodworking workshop at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina .

2009-2010 Studied materials and techniques of oil painting at the National University of Fine Arts and Music Tokyo 2007-2008 Studied art at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris 2006-2007 Studied materials and techniques of oil painting at the National University of Fine Arts and Music Tokyo

My paintings, whether composed of fruit, flowers or dishes are sometimes based on reality, sometimes derived from my imagination--often a combination of both. I walk the line between representation and abstraction. Paint and form take on a life of their own. The texture of the paint at times is as dominant as the objects within the work of art. Color and pattern, whether derived from ethnic ceremonial costumes, 19th and 20th century stencils, swatches of fabric or even my daughters' own illustrations continue to influence my work. The interaction of color, pattern, texture and form creates a harmonious rhythm, keeping the eye constantly moving through the composition. I've been influenced by many artists. I grew up in an artistic family, in which my father, a designer and painter, played a significant role in my artistic development. Matisse, Cezanne, Vuillard, Thiebaud and Janet Fish have all been sources of inspiration. I hope with my work to convey a mood, to delight the eye, and to explore and capture the whimsical nature of life.

Born in rural Pennsylvania, Brad Kunkle spent his younger years exploring and romanticizing the beauty of the sparse countryside and the deep forests around him. From an early age he was drawn to the worlds of Maxfield Parrish and the Pre-Raphaelites --worlds, he says, "where a subtle, supernatural beauty seems to be hiding under the breath of women --worlds where something beyond our natural perception is waiting to be found." He studied painting at Kutztown University mostly under George Sorrels, who was taught by a pupil of the 19th century Academic painter, William Adolphe Bougereau. Filled with academic principles, Brad felt confident in his ability, but stifled by the structure of schools and dissatisfied with the boundaries of traditional imagery. In an effort to discover his own artistic sensibilities, he worked as a commission-based portraitist, and began an almost decade-long journey of continued self-instruction and independent study. Brad was searching for an unnatural quality in his paintings, and it was ironically discovered by reducing his processes to the elements of painting he felt came most natural to him. His minimal palette is inspired by the grisailles of early European masters and the haunting quality of antique photographs and daguerreotypes. "Grisaille has a mysterious quality to it, and that mysterious quality is also at times carried into the way I will treat an object or a dress. Sometimes I like to give just enough information for the viewer to finish the details of what they are seeing."

The surfaces of these paintings are embellished with genuine gold and silver. These precious metals are used as symbolic elements as well as visual instruments to interact with the viewer’s movements and environment.

Candice Bohannon is an American contemporary representational artist. She was born in Sacramento, CA in 1982. Raised in the rural forested landscape of the foothills of the sierra nevada mountains, her naturalistic aesthetic in art was honed from an early age. After high school, Bohannon enrolled in art college, and after intense studies in painting, drawing, sculpting, art history, philosophy and aesthetics, she graduated from the Laguna College of Art and Design in 2005 with a BFA in painting/drawing and a minor in sculpture. It was there at LCAD that Candice met her future husband, fellow artist and best friend, Julio Reyes. After nearly 10 years in southern California, they moved back to rural northern California where they currently reside. Bohannon's artwork, an often-brooding combination of emotive figurative pieces and intensely studied works from life and nature, has already garnered the attention of many fine art connoisseurs, trade publications and artists. Her body of work expresses immense waves of controlled power and emotional sensitivity as she looks out at the world and attempts to share through art the touchingly sincere philosophical search for truth and meaning in our human existence. The artist describes much of her work's content as: the invisible yet perceptible quality of awareness, emotions, experiences, memories and expectations, the ethereal nature of the human soul and a searching for comfort and familiarity in the sublime unknown. Here is a refreshing example of a contemporary figurative artist who is not a cynical postmodern artist or a clinical academic realist. Bohannon's soulful work is firmly planted the inexplicably complex nature of human existence.

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Carolyn Anderson is a painter in abstract-realist styles whose brushstroke placement appears to be random but obviously is not when one stands back from her work. She says that "if you have a sense of where you want to go, but you aren't really sure, the painting itself becomes an adventure and a lot of viewers will respond to that excitement." Her focus, characteristic of impressionists, is to capture a moment in time.

Denis Sarazhin was born in Nikopol, Ukraine in 1982 . He attended the Kharkov Art and Design Academy, graduating in 2008. He specialized in painting and was a pupil of Ganozkiy V. L., Chaus V. N., and Vintayev V. N.. Sarazhin was awarded with the 1st Degree Diploma Award for Excellence in Painting from the Ukrainian Art Academy. Since 2007 he has been a member of Kharkov’s section of the association of Ukraine’s Artists’ Alliance.

Since 2006 he has worked with the gallery "Gallery Russia" Scottsdale USA

From 2004-2008 Edison exhibited under the alias Triad (almost exclusively in St. Louis). Before that, between 1997 and 1999, he exhibited under his birth name. His current work, while surreal or representational, still reflects some aspect of his abstract years. Using an array of odd tools, including cake spatulas, tooth brushes and hair combs, Edison nearly completes an abstract version of his painting before including subjects. For a great majority of his painting career Edison used oils (more notably during the abstract period). After a year and a half hiatus from painting he found using oils was not immediate enough if he were to appreciate painting subjects again. Acrylics gave him the freedom to evolve a piece much more quickly. He is currently in the process of finishing the Mythological Creatures Series. Edison works and resides in St. Louis.

Born in 1974 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Art College and the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow (faculte of easel painting, studio under the guidance of professors M. Abakumov and V. Sidorov). Since 2002 a member of the International Federation of Artists & National Artist's Union of Russia.

Monakhov's paintings excite the same feelings, as music and poetry do. Metaphors of time, history and personal emotional experience pass before spectators. Delicate colours and refined contours create beautiful musical harmony.

"Felix Mas was born Barcelona and trained at the "Artes y Oficios" and later at the "Escuela Superior de San Jorge". His artistic education was further developed by extensive travelling in Europe and the United States, before returning to his home town, Barcelona to work as an illustrator and designer

His works were first exhibited in 1966 in a group exhibition at the "Galeria Jaimes" Barcelona. He continued exhibiting in Spain until 1974 when following a visit to Venezuela on the occasion of his first one-man show, he decided to settle in Caracas where he lived for six years. During this period he took advantage of his proximity to North America to further his career and ultimately became represented by several galleries throughout the United States and his work was regularly exhibited at highly respected art events and fairs in New York, Los Angels and Chicago.

His artistic connection with the Spanish peninsula was renewed when he was invited to exhibit in Barcelona, Valencia and Malaga and later in Lisbon, Portugal. As a result, Mas now divides his time between Europe and the United States. Felix Mas's finely balanced compositions of colour lead us through symbolism and fantasy to the realm of beauty in the female figure; a subject matter central to his work. He is a traditional painter who is fascinated and preoccupied with line, form and the achievement of fine colour harmonies. His models, clearly his ideal of femininity, are radiant, graceful, exquisitely dressed and invariably place in rich opulent settings surrounded by ornamentation and glossy accessories. While employing with great skill various techniques and media such as pastel and serigraphy, Mas remains a devotee of oil paintings when work for major exhibitions."

I am in love with light. Light gives form to perfect objects but also deconstructs objects and lets us experience the immense variety of nature's abstraction, giving us the opportunity to see the common with an uncommon eye.

My creative process gets stimulated by the interaction between the so-called outer nature (everything that light touches) and the so-called inner nature (the one that exists in the form of feelings and thoughts inside the artist). I believe that we create a personal, heartfelt work when we find a common ground for the outer and inner nature to exist in the same space and time, when we do not feel the separation of the two anymore but when they become one.

I'm so amazed, when seeing a masterpiece of the past, to notice that through mere physical materials the artist was able to convey something spiritual in his or her work.

Around the age of ten, Hsin-Yao started painting in watercolors, as well as other mediums, out side of school. Theearly exposure instilled in him the foundation needed to excel at very earlyage.

Hsin-Yao received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, in 2009 and his Master of Fine Art degree from the same university in 2012. He works ina range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities toexpressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors in which multiple figures enact a story. He usually uses the visual richness and the muted tonesof color, and expressive brush-strokes to indicate his subjects. His dedicationand interest in the arts is apparent from over ten years of hard work andacademic studies.

His many awards include Exceptional Merit Award at the 2012 International Portrait competition at Portrait Society of America, second place in the portrait/figure category of The Artist’sMagazine’s 2008 Annual Competition, a Certificate of Excellence in the 2010 Portrait Society of America International Portrait Competition, and finalist in the Art Renewal Center Salon for 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. He’s represented by the Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona; Waterhouse Gallery, in Santa Barbara,California; the Garden Gallery in Half Moon Bay, California; and Howard/Mandevile Gallery in Kirkland, Washington.

Janice Wong studied Fine Art at the University of Saskatchewan and received her BFA with Distinction, Honours in Painting, from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Alberta. She is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships: Canada Council Visual Arts Mid-Career Grants, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and Federal and Provincial Project and Travel Awards. Her work is exhibited and collected in Canada, Europe, Asia and the United States. Janice's family roots trace back through British Columbia history to the mid-1800's. Born in Saskatchewan, she has resided in Vancouver since 1986.

Juarez Machado was born in 1941 in the city of Joinville, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He studied at the School of Art in the state of Paranâ, in the city of Curitiba, and participated actively in its artistic movement. In 1966 he took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, intensifying his activities. In addition to painting he also dabbled in illustrating, scenography, sculpture, drawing and engraving. He has received a number of awards in Brazilian galleries and other international prizes. Machado has been living in Paris since 1986 and has frequently exhibited his works in Europe and the USA.

Yoshida was born in 1924 in Ikeda City (part of present day Osaka). He studied art under the great Hayashi Kiyoshi and also Furukido Masaru, before those studies were interrupted by the war. Selected for training as a kami-kaze pilot, as part of the Special Attack Squadrons of the Japanese Naval Air Force, Yoshida was extremely lucky to survive his teens – though the majority of his close friends were not so fortunate. After the close of hostilities, the memory of the traumatic experience of having walked so near to death spurred Yoshida to throw himself single-mindedly into his art again and devote himself to a sustained exploration of the life-affirming forces that he had seen so nearly extinguished. From that point onwards the majority of his work has carried the single, haunting and most telling of all titles: Life.

In 1964, Yoshida moved to Paris where he lived until 2009. He trained with the renowned English artist Stanley Hayter, and worked for many years at Hayter’s well-known studio Atelier 17. In 1993 the quality of Yoshida’s work was recognised when he was honoured to be the first living artist ever to be given a solo exhibition at the Japanese Galleries of the British Museum. During the Festival of Canterbury 2004, his magnificent octagonal installation, Sei-Mei, (Life-Force)could be seen in Canterbury Cathedral. In 2006 the Chateau de Blois, in the Loire Valley held a major solo exhibition of his work. The October Gallery has shown regular exhibitions of Yoshida’s work since the early 90s, the most recent one being in 2007. Sadly, this wonderful artist passed away in Japan in 2009. His contribution to the exchange of culture between Japan and the West was acknowledged in a special programme broadcast by NHK (the Japanese National Broadcasting Service) in August 2010 timed to coincide with the commerative services for the cessation of the Pacific War.

Yoshida's marvelous canvases owe much to the traditional screens of his native Japan in their use of precious metals, gold, silver, copper and platinum, applied in thin sheets over a binding layer of Japanese lacquer. They can be construed as momentary apperceptions of the transcendent power of the life force stirring both within us and around us, allowing his audience privileged access to the serene beauty of an otherwise intangible series of linked progressions that describe the very processes of Life itself.

Hanging precariously horizontally from red sandstone, fifty feet above the ground, may not seem like it would inspire the creation of beautiful oil paintings, but that is exactly what happed with Erin Hanson.

After a lifetime of experimenting in different styles and mediums, it wasn’t until Erin moved to the outskirts of Las Vegas to climb at Red Rock Canyon that her painting style consolidated by a single inspiration and force of nature. Now, Erin Hanson transforms the landscape around her into an abstract mosaic of color and texture, the impasto application of paint lending a sculptural effect to her art. Her oil paintings are created wet-on-wet, alla prima, allowing the viewer to experience the texture of every brush stroke. A colorful underpainting gives a unique, glowing effect to her paintings. The rocks themselves seem to dictate her painting style, sometimes bold and dark, other times softened by a fragile light.

About the work My paintings draw on various structures and systems to produce a loose geometry with organic rhythms. I rely mainly on my hand-crafted tools such as stencils and over-sized rubber stamps to construct my multi-layered paintings. As part of my process, I study the natural and built environment; among my many references are architecture, aerial views of the landscape, and weather patterns. I also draw on my memories of childhood years in Japan: my paintings reflect the wabi-sabi aesthetic--a Japanese concept of beauty that includes simplicity, unpretentiousness and imperfection.

I allow for a natural, intuitive progression in my work. While drawing upon a vocabulary of rubber-stamped marks, I begin each painting without a preconceived notion of any final resolution, alternately concealing and revealing various elements through successive layers of acrylic paint and rice paper. The array of marks I have developed within the past few years provides a formal continuity throughout my body of work.

About the artist Laura Fayer is a painter living and working in New York City. She is a recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and has exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally, including solo shows at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in NYC and Galerie du Tableau in Marseille. She was awarded grants from International Residencies for Artists and the Massachusetts Cultural Council for a fellowship to live and work for two months at Triangle France in Marseille. She has also been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and has travelled in South America, Asia and Africa. Fayer’s work is in many corporate and public collections, including Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, MGM Mirage and the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Ritz Carltons in Atlanta and Shenzhen, China, and the US Embassies in Djibouti and Costa Rica. The W Hotel in San Francisco features Fayer’s “Weather Report” painting in their News Café, and Disney’s Saratoga Springs resort in Orlando commissioned her to create a large-scale nine-piece installation. Fayer is a graduate of Harvard University in Visual and Environmental Studies and holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City.

There is nothing like an intriguing puzzle to get the brain working and few things more satisfying than finding a solution to a perplexing problem. So while some people take pleasure in working on the newspaper's daily crossword puzzle I can't resist sorting through and arranging shapes and colours. In particular, the interwoven forms and layers of patterns I find while investigating tangled woodlands, meandering streams, open fields, roadside ditches and marshes. Appreciating my discoveries is easy; figuring out how to interpret my finds and then portray that essence two dimensionally with paint on paper is the real challenge! It is this desire to decipher, understand and organize what I see that motivates me to paint. In my attempt to interpret nature’s patterns and understand how the pieces fit together my strategy relies on two things, simplifying the complicated and taking an alternative negative, or subtractive, approach.

His paintings are abstract, and make references to biological, microscopic, and scientific forms. He also uses landscape as a theme.

Originally from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Mark has been living and working in Montréal, Quebec, Canada for the past eleven years. He has studied at the Rhode Island School of Art and has received a Bachelor of Fine Art from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Art from Concordia University. He has received numerous awards from the New Brunswick Arts Board and exhibited throughout Canada and in Miami, Florida. His work is included in the New Brunswick Art Bank and in corporate and private collections in Canada, the US, England, and the Netherlands.

A third generation Japanese-American, Kobayashi was born in New York City, soon after that his family moved to Oahu, Hawaii, and then ventured to Los Angeles when he was eight. After receiving his B.A. in 1970 from the University of California - Los Angeles, Kobayashi began working as an illustrator. However he found his work, which was quite editorial in its nature, did not fit the Los Angeles commercial art market. In 1977, Kobayashi returned to New York City. After returning to New York, a casual visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art permanently altered Kobayashi's artistic direction and prompted a career change. There he saw Velazquez's portrait Juan de Paraja. He began studying the works of Whistler, Chase and Sargent, who were also influenced by Velazquez. Strangely enough, it was through his study of Western masters, especially Whistler, that Kobayashi became aware of Japanese art and "the Japanese floating world of Edo". He began studying the 16th and 17th century Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock print masters Hokasai, Sharaku and Utamaro. Ukiyo-e is defined as "pictures of the floating world," depicting characters in the constantly changing motions of life. The whole perspective of Japanese art allures him - the patterns, color harmonies, use of negative space, and primarily, composition and design. Kobayashi has received two major awards: the National Academy of Design's Ranger Purchased Award and the Allied Arts Silver Medal. His work has appeared in Forbes, Fortune, and Reader's Digest magazines.

Morten E. Solberg is an artist's artist. He is versatile in all mediums. He paints in oil, acrylic and watercolor and his techniques range from photo-realism to total abstraction. Years of pursuing his craft via design studios and commercial art brought Mort to the West.

Mort attended The Cleveland Institute Of Art studying painting and design. He shed his commercial ties and concentrated on fine art and has been painting full time since 1970. After moving to Southern California's Orange County in 1968, he firmly established himself in the art world with memberships in the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Society of Animal Artists, Wildlife Artists of the World, Knickerbocker Artists and the Society of Master Impressionists, as a lifetime Master member.

Awards and inclusions in prestigious collections followed. His paintings have graced the covers of numerous magazines, and he has been featured in American Artist, Wildlife Art News, Art West, Watercolor, Sports Afield, Sporting Classic, Southwest Art and Orange County Illustrated. In 1986, American Artist chose Mort as their "Artist of the Year". His accomplishments have earned him listings in Who's Who International Biographies, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Art, and Who's Who in the West. In 1993, Mort was elected to U.S. Art Magazines "Artist Hall of Fame". In 2001 Wildlife Art Magazine established Mort as a "Master Artist". Mort's work has been published as limited edition prints since 1977.

His work has been sold to collectors as far away as India, Australia, Great Britian and The Philippines. From golf tournaments to music festivals and branding for organic coffee, the copyright to Oliver Ray’s art is also in demand. And while his audience grows, this emerging artist continues to explore new subject matter from his studio on Prince Edward Island.Canadian artist, Oliver Ray, painting outdoors.

Oliver William Ray was born on the last day of summer in Winnipeg, Manitoba . As the youngest of four siblings, he became a keen observer. With an extensive library to complement the family’s eclectic art collection, the young “student” was immersed in Fine Arts from the beginning.

The most immediate and constant images in his life were of art. His uncle, now an internationally renowned illustrator, was busy studying Fine Arts in France. George Ray, Oliver’s Grandfather, was a commercial artist in the advertising department of the Hudson’s Bay Company. His Great Grandfather, also named George, wrote plays and novels (most notably the adventure romance “Kasba”, published in 1915). And Oliver’s Great Aunt Joy, who studied at the Ontario School of Art, was an accomplished landscape painter (as was her second husband). Each of these relatives added to the family’s extensive collection of works and greatly influenced Ray’s first creative impulses.

"San Francisco-based artist Pakayla Rae Biehn uses oil and acrylic to create incredible paintings that look like pictures. But we've all seen photorealistic art before, so what separates hers from the rest? Biehn makes us think that we're looking at double exposure photos, a technique in which a piece of film is exposed twice, to two different images. Look closely and you'll also notice that there's always an emotional, and sometimes haunting, story taking place - it's as if she's carefully stitched together different moments in time."

1977 Madrid 2002 Ingeniero de Caminos CC. y PP. por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2003 Declina ejercer la ingeniería para dedicarse por completo al arte. Miembro del colectivo multidisciplinar Boa Mistura. Grupo de artistas con raíces en el graffiti que ha intervenido entre otros en el el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Casa Encendida, Festival Internacional de las Artes de Castilla León

Shirley Trevena has always tried to break the rules of conventional watercolour painting and over the years she has developed a wonderfully loose way of painting using a dynamic palette of colours. Her paintings have strong compositions, unusual perspectives and, above all, strength and vibrancy in her colour compositions. She has an international reputation and is regarded as one of Britain’s most innovative artists in the medium.

She has been a member of the Royal institute of Painters in Watercolours since 1994 and in her first year won the prestigious Winsor & Newton Award. The Following year she won the Llewellen Prize and in 2007 the John Blockley Prize.

She exhibits each year at the Mall Galleries, London and at the Sussex Watercolour Society’s exhibitions. In 2010 she exhibited as a special guest at the 7thInternational Watercolour Festival in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2011 she exhibited as one of 5 international watercolour artists at the St Cyr sur Mer Biennale in the south of France. She is author of 3 best selling books: Taking Risks with Watercolour, Vibrant Watercolours and Breaking the Rules of Watercolour.

Born in Orenburg. Graduated from the faculty of monumental painting of the V.I.Surikov Moscow State Academical Art Institute under the tuition of O.M.Savostjuk.