Daria Salakhova

Daria Salakhova, an professional artist, 30 у.о.

In fact, iI've always dreamed of being no other than an artist. Therefore, there was art school and аrt university in my life. After university I was an art school teacher. In my spare time and vacations I drew some commission paintings. But then I realized it's not my dream life.
A couple years ago I left my job as an art teacher to reach my life goal to be a travelling artist. Here unites two my biggest passions - drawing and travelling. The best way to do both is plein air painting. Plein air sessions are very useful as the way of connection between artists; it also helps to increase professional level. Moreover I try to learn more by visiting workshops and master classes of more skilled artists than I am all the time.
Nowadays some part of the year I draw at home, and another part devote to plein air trips. I draw landscapes and portraits the most.
At this moment my works are in private collections in Russian Federation only, but surely I'm interested in worldwide sellings. So here i am.

Tomsk State University, Institute of Arts and Culture, Specialty fine arts (2012)
Advanced training of the Imperial Academy of Arts( Saint-Petersburg) (2016)

Stroganov debuts, 2011, laureate

All-Russian Festival of Young Talents, Krasnoyarsk 2012,
participiant

Russian Art Week, XII International Exhibition and Competition of Contemporary art, Moscow 2012, the second place winner

The Third International Festival-competition of creative Industries of the modern polis "Artprospect", Kemerovo 2013, bronze prize

International Exhibition and Competition of Portrait and self-portrait, Tomsk 2014, participant

Regional exhibition-competition "Region 70", Tomsk 2019, participant