Elena Mazko

I was born and live in Russia, in the green city of Stavropol. I've been close to nature since childhood. In my parents' garden and on country picnics, I watched with delight the cycle of seeds, the weaving of climbing plants, as a snail stretches out of its shell and looks with its antennae. I petted all the dogs and cats, made dolls out of flowers. And she painted. The music teacher advised my parents to send me to draw, and I colored all his music books. Then I painted the school ones and painted them up — my parents sent me to art school. I didn't like it there. These are the rules, the grades, the failures. But I finished it and continued to learn how to draw further.

While studying at the Faculty of Arts, I was inspired by how nature recovers the territory that man has mastered: skeletons of houses overgrown with ivy, fences covered with moss. Perhaps I found it beautiful because of a similar inner feeling of abandonment. It wasn't easy for me in a family of dependent parents.
Then I got married, I rarely painted, and my musician husband's music appeared in my life. Art has never left me. After the divorce, life led me into spirituality and psychology. I started drawing abstractions to express the states that were rushing ou...

Stavropol Children's Art School.
Stavropol State Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Arts, Department of Fine Arts

exhibition of young artists in the Stavropol gallery "Parshin" 2015