Tatiana
Rezvaya

Born in 1943 in Alma-Ata, USSR.
My mother - Klaudia Osheva, was a professional artist, hence from my early years I got grips of what “a magic of creativity” means.
Graduated from the University, specialising in German-Roman philology. But extensive travel, meeting people and exploration of nature were provoking me to reflect it with the means of fine art. So, I got the second education at a College of Arts. Started to exhibit while studying at the college. It was followed by numerous local, nationwide, All-Soviet Union and international exhibitions.
Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1985.
Living and working in the UK since 1998.

Preferred media - oil on canvas. Preferred genre - figurative art, which demands knowledge of the whole spectre of genres - portraits, landscapes, still-life, - only then your fantasy is not restricted by any inner barriers. I worked in graphics, ceramics, murals and as a theatrical designer when I was invited as an art-director and costume designer for several productions of Odessa Drama Theatre, including a joint production with Milwaukee Group (USA).
Paintings - in private collections all over the World, from Japan and Australia to Europe and both coasts of the USA, including two portraits at the Gallery of Explorers of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
My creative credo: any work of art should charge the viewer with positive energy - aesthetic, intellectual, emotional. Touch with any art should enrich the viewer, "to add, not to subtract". This, on my opinion, is its main task.