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BIOGRAPHY


Yelena was born in the Far East of Russia. She started her artistic training in early childhood and was educated in the finest traditions of XIX century Russian Realistic painting.

After receiving MA's in Fine Arts with a major in Oil painting and Art history from the Khabarovsk Fine Art & Graphic University. She spent the first 10 years in her artistic career as a teacher in ART College While teaching in Art College she discovered and fell in love with the mystery and magic of Painting on Silk.

Paining on Silk became her main technique for 20 years. But recently she feels that she has a passion to try something different and take a swing at oil painting again, but she will still continue to paint on silk as well. The styles in both techniques are very similar and complement each other with the nature of their own beauty.

In 1997, Yelena and her family decided to move to the US. She arrived in Denver in 1997 with but a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a passion for Painting. As difficult as it was to start her career from scratch in a new country, the artist's talents and incredible work ethics helped Yelena find her place in the competitive artistic word.

The frolic of creative work, joys and challenges are the true sources of an artist's happiness and inspiration. Yelena paintings are exhibited in galleries and art museums throughout the world and her silk and Oil wall hangings are being purchased extensively for public and private collections.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My feelings, dreams and thoughts emerge, transformed into droplets of liquid dye, as silk painting. My art is a gentle therapist who helps me through the darkest periods of my life and illuminates the joyous times While painting I do not only transform a plain piece of silk or canvas into a piece of art.
I transform the world around me: every drop of dye on silk is one drop of magic into my existence I like to work in different genre's :still-life , landscape, as well as symbolic figurative compositions. When drawing women's gentle and mysterious images I express Joy, Peace, and harmony. Harmony to me is a poetry of lines and colors that has a life of its own .