Natalia
Anatolievna Shchetinina

About the artist Natalya Shchetinina:
Natalia Shchetinina was born in 1982 in Kemerovo, Russia. It's situated in West Siberia and considered to be the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin. Coal mining has been its major industry since 1701. Kemerovo is not only an important industrial city but also a cultural center with theatres, museums and monuments
She is ethnic german, her mother was german, but her father is russian.
Natalia is a painter. When she was 6 y.o. she became interested in art. After graduating from Fine Art school, she painted with watercolors, oils, acrylics.
She likes ballet and flowers. From childhood, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina, but her mother was against it. In the end, becoming a ballerina remained only a dream. Her favorite subject in painting is ballerinas.
Natalia lives in Novosibirsk.
She likes to go to The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre for the ballet very often. After the performances she is inspired of ballerinas. It is the largest Russian theatre, even larger than the Bolshoi Theatre (literally "Big theatre") in Moscow. The total area of the building is 11,837m2(127,410 sq ft), the volume is 294,340 m3 (10,395,000 cu ft). The theatre is often called the "Siberian Coliseum" because of its size and beauty. The auditorium seats more than 1,790 spectators. Its upper gallery is decorated with copies of antique Greek statues. And her favorite theater is The Mariinsky Theatre. It's a historical theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th-century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakovreceived their premieres.
From the early childhood, she paints ballet and flowers. Ballerinas are beautiful women. A woman as an element, ruling many aspects of life, and a keeper of secrets. The fundamental point in the artworks is the transfer of the female image through a variety of shades and the imposition of brush strokes on the canvas, betraying all the versatility of female emotionality and inner world.
She uses acrylic and oil paint to create portraits of women, ballerinas, people, flowers, animals, birds, bodies. People are an inexhaustible source of energy for her. Body movement is an emotion. It is our most elemental force, which is capable to attract and repel, to make us believe or to be disappointed in anything, but its main ability is to transfer energy from person to person. She expresses her emotions through the colors on the canvas. Each painting is filled with her passion for life, a vision of this world, and her love of art. All her arts are individual ones.
Natalia paints in the styles of impressionism, pop art, abstractionism, figurative, fine art.
The main collectors are in Russia, who order to paint their art portraits in the style of pop art.
Her artworks are held in private collections in France, Germany, Italy, China and Russia.

Education:
She graduated from Tomsk Fine Art school N1 in 1998.
She graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2004.

Exhibitions:
2019 - RAFAF, International Fine Arts Salon, Sochi
2017 - ARTIS Gallery, Moscow
2016 - Art is all around, Moscow
2013 - Tomsk Art Museum, Tomsk (personal exhibition)
2009 - Tomsk Art Museum, Tomsk (personal exhibition)