"The street with a pharmacy". Painting

Alina Olenina was born in 1969 in Samara. Creative biography began in early childhood, when the young artist felt her ability to reflect the world around her on paper and in modeling. Painting and sculpture have become an integral part of life and formed a special attentive look at the beauty of reality. Alina Olenina studied in various studios and masters, maintaining their individuality. A few years of training at art school and the academy seemed to her boring, and the artist chose her own path. For 15 years studying the spiritual content of life, she turned to iconography and painted icons, which decorate many famous churches in Russia and Ukraine, are in private collections. Impressionism and realism intertwined in the images of the creative search for deep spiritual beauty. The experienced artist works in different styles and directions, for each picture finds its own special way of expression. Smooth classical brush painting for the restrained surface observation of nature and vice versa, textured volume stroke with a palette knife for masculine images or vivid combination of color and shape. Solo exhibitions in Russia and abroad always arouse keen interest, and many of Alina Olenina's paintings are in private collections in Japan, the United States, Spain and other countries. The artist shares her admiration and desire to create with her students-people who want to join the painting. Numerous followers of the artist get the necessary experience in her workshops and paint their own pictures. Alina Olenina lives and works in Moscow and teaches painting at studios in Moscow and the suburbs, being in constant creative inspiration.