Katerina Yakovleva

My name is Katerina Yakovleva and I´m working as a fulltime artist.

Most of all, I am inspired by the color as it is, and its combination with other colors.
This is probably my professional deformation, because every time I look for example at the sky, I try to spread it into shades: ultramarine, cobalt, cerruleum.

A great source of inspiration is various textures, aged surfaces.
I am crazy about the peeling paint on the fences, old doors, rusty handles, time-rubbed iron and wooden parts.

I like how time ages objects, like to notice changes in various objects, the stages of their lives. When you still guess how this or that thing looked initially, but you already see something special in it, the appearance of new properties. This is amazing!

Each of us is able to see beauty or something special, evaluate it from own angle. This is also the object of interest.

All my life I strive to get away from grades and create as if no one sees me. This is an attempt to free myself from expectations in order to find something special inside and let it go out.

And although this is a personal path, I am very glad that there are people whose hearts respond to what I do.

My artworks found their home in private collections in ...

Moscow High School of Printing Arts and Media Industry
(Printmedia and Information Technology Institute), 2002-2007
Elementary school of fine arts, 1994-1999

2019-2021 - Permanent Exibition in Irida Art Gallerie, Moscow
2016 - Solo exibition in Vologda City Museum
2015 - "Vologda Lace. Nothern beauty", Vologda City Museum
2013 - "From Nature to Cities and Back", Sokol Museum of Local Lore
2012 - Solo Exibition in Sokol Museum of Local Lore
2011 - "Simple Lines", Sokol Museum of Local Lore
2010 - "Young Artists of Our Region", Sokol Museum of Local Lore