Valentyna Crane

Valentyna’s contemporary impressionist style captures the emotion of every landscape scene by embracing the effects of the changing light, atmosphere and the sensation of moving air. She is a landscape painter, committed to her art and the people who appreciate it.

Valentina’s professional training began at the Samokish College of Fine Arts in Crimea - one of the oldest academic art schools in the former USSR, with a clear lineage to the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts. She obtained her Master’s degree in Architecture and Landscape Design at the Academy of Construction and Architecture “V.I. Vernadsky Сrimean Federal University”. However, what truly shaped Valentina’s development as a professional artist is her early formal academic training at the Fine Arts School for children in Simferopol where she received a strong classical foundation in drawing, composition, sculpture, decorative arts and traditional painting techniques.

Valentina’s classical background, her strong drafting skills and her deep knowledge of art history permeate her art. And yet, her work exudes freedom, vibrancy of colour, translucency of light and the crispness of Canberra air. Valentyna is an intrinsically Australian artist, who transposes the techn...