Tamila Zayferd

I was born in Ukraine in the city of Zhytomyr.
After the Kharkov State Art School in 1986 she worked in the Zhytomyr Regional Music and Drama Theatre. I. Kocherga for the position of head of the decoration shop.
At the same time, I worked in a fashion studio as an artist-designer of clothes, and in my free time I was engaged in restoration and independently restored icons on a charitable basis in local churches.
Since 1989, I began to work in the direction of sacred art and became the initiator of the creation of a family icon-painting workshop.
Later, an icon painting school was organized.
The method I taught was effective and different from the traditional. The classes were based on a deep study of the works of ancient icon painters, in the best traditions of sacred art, using constructive drawing, plastic anatomy combined with rhythms.
In fact, icon painting is a very responsible occupation and requires too much effort.
When you paint an icon, you face such tasks as conveying through the image of transcendence, lack of passion, anonymity of the author.
And the difficulty lies in the fact that the icon, like no other work, shows all the imprints of the artist's mood and his emotional state.
Later, the vector of my work c...

I loved to draw from early childhood and even then I told everyone that I would be an artist.
After the fourth grade, I entered the children's art school and studied under the guidance of the Honored Artist of Ukraine V. N. Shkurinsky.
In 1982, after a big competition (12 people per place), I successfully passed the exams and entered the Kharkov State Art School at the theater and decoration department, where she worked under the guidance of Honored Art Worker of Ukraine P. A. Shigimagi.

My paintings decorate temples and are in private collections around the world.