Maria Tinkoff

No one can ever truly understand what motivated a person to create their masterpiece. All we can do is admire the end result of their experience, thoughts and vision of what was happening at the time.
Maria Tinkoff is a bright, charismatic person. Anyone who casts a glance at a canvas filled with this ingenious artist's vivid emotions will find something of their own. Some will see the magical colors at play - a harmony of the tiniest nuances and the marvelous mighty battle of colors.
Others may see the reflection of joy and brightness of that world or the deep philosophical view on one problem or another. Some may even see an entire story.
Every one of us can try to paint something at one point in our lives, but not all of us can manage to add so much meaning and sincerity into it. Maria, however, managed, and we can only wonder how. Is it the result of all the support and artistic success on behalf of numerous generations of her extended family? Or is it her education in philosophy and aesthetics at Saint Petersburg University? After all, that was where she decided she wanted to share with the world something beautiful, deep, exalted and poetic. Perhaps it is her frequent presence in the company of photographers, as it was...