Olga Bauer

I am a full time artist, currently living and working in Chevy Chase, MD. I was born in Mongolia to Ukrainian parents and I grew up in Belarus. I lived in Paris where I studied French language and French Art History and I also lived in Moscow before I moved to Chevy Chase in 2008.

Art has been my passion since early childhood. I’ve always enjoyed drawing and sketching. I started taking oil painting classes about 14 years ago when I moved to the US. I had a great privilege to study with a teacher Doris Haskel. Doris inspired and encouraged me, I’m forever grateful to her and I think I wouldn’t be who I am today without her. Doris was heavily influenced by Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning and other New York school painters as well as by Braque, Matisse and Cezanne. My favorite painters are Picasso and Matisse.

I also studied with Erin Johnson at Artworks Fine Art Studio in Bethesda MD; Walt Bartman, Maud Taber-Thomas, Jordan Bruns and Gavin Glakas at the Yellow Barn Studio in Glen Echo, MD – I learnt a lot from each instructor and I appreciate their talent, patience, guidance and their openness in sharing their knowledge and technique.

I mostly create abstract pieces and work on a large scale canvas ...