Irina
Nikolaevna Sokulina

Born in 1941 in the city of Saratov. The ability to draw appeared

at school, however, drawing schools and studios in life are not caught, overcame the natural tendency to

Sciences. In 1963, Sokolina graduated from mechanical-mathematical faculty of Saratov state University. N. G.Chernyshevsky, then the graduate school of Moscow

the energy Institute. In the end - candidate of technical Sciences, associate Professor, Department of mathematical Cybernetics in SGU. At the present time-teacher of the Educational centre "Technopark-Saratov". Throughout his life, Irina was engaged in sports:

gymnastics, skiing,Hiking, climbing, skiing. 30 years given to the mountains. Including 25 years as an instructor of alpinism. Candidate master of sports, instructor 1 category. This Is The Caucasus, Tien-Shan,Pamir.

Probably in this period, has great visual experience. The many different levels of altitudes and weather conditions in the mountains

truly inexhaustible. And only in 1993 at the age of 53 Irina for the first time took up the brush. The first consultations on

painting received in the Studio Davydov B. I. Then some time of independent work, a short consultation of the artist

Kondratiev S. V., from December 1997, the Studio Kotova, A. P. Regular classes at the Studio, and in the last year working on sketches for the nature together with the painter V. A. Stukalo has borne fruit.

In 1999, Irina Nikolaevna had a chance to get to the sketches with the artist by Pustoshkin V. Yu. From then Valery Yurievich remains constant consultant, Advisor and critic.

Main part of paintings of the artist - landscapes. Is mountains, the Volga, the island of Chardym, in the neighborhood of Saratov. There are portraits and architectural structures.