Darya Palagina

My name is Daria, and I have been drawing for as long as I can remember, and I cannot imagine myself without it. My path to becoming an artist was not fast.
For the first time I sat down at an easel at the age of eight in the house of culture of a village in the taiga. Then the inspiring St. Petersburg, in which I felt like a little princess.
Every day, when I came home from school, I drew something. And dad offered to go to art school. After five years of art school, there was a year of preparatory courses.
An attempt to enter an architectural institute turned out to be a failure, and I entered the art department of the pedagogical university. And it was mine: paintings, portraits in oil, the creative atmosphere in the studio, the smell of paint.
Even in my first year of studies, I began to attend sessions of nature, which were organized by fellow artists who had long since abandoned the art institutions of the city. As a result, I was the youngest there, and one of these colleagues later taught at my art school.
Some of my classmates already from the second year went to work as a teacher in an art school, and I was more puzzled by the search for knowledge and the opportunity to draw even more. And when studying at the instit...

Higher education with a degree in fine arts teacher. Graduated with honors from the Volga State Social and Humanitarian Academy at the Faculty of Arts in 2012.

I also have five years of art school behind me. Graduated with honors in 2006.

Participant of the interregional exhibition of works by young artists "Young Volga" - 2015

Participant of the regional youth exhibition 2016

Participant of the regional exhibition "Golden Autumn" 2019

Participant and winner of the creative competition "Awakening of Nature" from the international association of artists "Art Club KIMMERIA" under the leadership of the Russian Academy of Arts - 2020

Participant and winner of the second place in the category "Architecture" of the international competition of pastel painters "Pastelium" - winter 2021

Participant of the exhibition "Contemplation", St. Petersburg - 2021