Marina Leonteva

Sensitive art from a delicate soul. I immerse in sensorial perception, inner conditions.

I’m trying to go deep into graphic and painting both. Usually I prefer painting to express shinny, light and bright feelings and cases of my life. Colors are so good to convey such complicated things as love. I often address myself to the topic of adunation of strength and an appearing of complete huge and light energy as a result.

In graphic I single out two different fields: dark and light.
On the one hand I am sensible and sustainable, on the another hand I’m emotional and sensitive.

I cannot remember myself first drawing or painting, cause it was on a very early childhood. Also I don’t remember myself not drawing. When I was a kid, I had a huge kit of paints (watercolor, oil, gouache, pastel) and tools for graphic (from coal to calligraphy pens), The kit belonged to my father, there were high quality Soviet tools, I still use some of them.

The first stair in the art education was an art school for children in a little Siberian criminal town named Bratsk. The town was full of fights, crime families, lawlessness and illegal activity. I knew people died around the corner and I watched criminal movies on TV considering violent dea...

2011-2015 — Krasnoyarsk State Art School, Bachelor of Graphic design
2007-2008, 2010 — Private lessons in Yuriy Zavarzov studio, Russia, Krasnoyarsk
2004-2006 — Vasiliy Surikov Children Art School, Russia, Krasnoyarsk
1999-2004 — Children Art School, Russia, Bratsk

2019 — the Dark Vat (Alexander James Hamilton Residency) exhibition of the Distil Ennui studio www.DistilEnnui.com, Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk
2016 — #0 personal exhibition 'for nobody' in abandoned stairs, Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk
2015 — Graphics group exhibition ‘Passagio dell’Inferno’, Toscana, Italy