Tatiana Trunova

My artistic experience is based on observation. I've been sketching my whole life. There is a habit of working in difficult, uncomfortable conditions. The themes of motherhood, childhood, genre scenes are close to me. There is some generalization inherent in images. Since childhood, I have been interested in the icon, archaism and the experience of other artists, often associated with an appeal to ancient art.
I was born in St. Petersburg, studied on Vasilievsky Island, now I live in Kolomna, and the theme of the City is close to me. I am also worried about the charm of the south, the sea, amazed by the oriental tale with its grapes, spices, carpets and mosques. The muse of the wanderings of Gauguin, Kipling, Gumilyov always attracted me too. On trips to India and Georgia, I constantly drew and there I realized that this is the most complete way of my perception of the world.
Winter is connected for me with St. Petersburg, and I always spent summer in nature, among goats, dogs, horses. So the village is another house I grew up in. There are periods when plots appear only from the head. The practice of drawing from life makes it possible to depict what is remembered and decides to manifest itself. This is a kind of selection, where ...

2006-2011 St. Petersburg Academic Art Lyceum. B.V. Johanson.
2012-2018 Russian Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg Member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists.
The author's works are in private collections in Russia, Georgia, India, Denmark, Finland, Japan, USA, China, Australia.

2024
"Argentina" | Licht Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
"From Afar" | Totibadze Gallery, Moscow
2023
"Well, how do you like it in Georgian Palestine?" | M'ars Gallery, St. Petersburg
"Where am I" | Liga Gallery, Moscow
2019
"My Best Picture" | Hermitage-Vyborg Exhibition Center, Vyborg
Painting exhibition | The exhibition hall of the Library of the Kirov Islands, St. Petersburg
"I looked around" | Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg
"Painted in Georgia" | Do Gallery, St. Petersburg
2018
"Bunker" | Griboyedov Club, St. Petersburg
"Environment" | Art Muse Gallery, St. Petersburg
Graphic art exhibition | The exhibition hall of the Library of the Kirov Islands, St. Petersburg
2017
"The Red Land of India" | Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg