Irina Tarasova

Hello. My name is Irina. I was born in Samara, Russia in 2001.

Since childhood, I have been drawn to self-expression through fine arts. At a younger age, I was often sick, so it took some time to make progress in drawing. As a result, I dropped out of art school and to this day I’m a self-educated artist. Even now I’m getting education in a completely different kind of specialty. Finally, I decided to listen to my heart and do what really like. Like any person, I’m in search of something new for myself.

Mostly paint people. I admire a person and at the same time have a disgust. This is a strange contradiction, but I hope many will understand me. It all started with watercolors. I consider it a finicky technique, but love it anyway. Just like "watercolor loves water". This is the only phrase that I remember from art school. After a long break, I picked up a brush and realized that had forgotten how to work with watercolors, couldn’t do anything with myself, ruined several albums and gave up. Now I use the oil technique and I never cease to rejoice at it. Each smear inspires the next step. The colors are bright and saturated, perhaps this is what I would like to see in real life...

Painting is my salvation, the canvas is my...