Yulia Gavarini

20 years of a successful career in IT and Finance, getting tired of coding, figures and reports, I discovered the freedom and therapy of Art.

The last time I did an oblique cat drawing back at primary school…mmm *** years ago, it was highly criticized by our classic teacher. Those classes somehow turned me away and made me believe that both my arms were left-handed and growing in the wrong direction. However, I loved staring for hours at the pictures from a variety of art magazines belonging to my architect-mom… There was another world in there, so different, so mystical to my Sovietic surroundings. I spent a few years taming the piano and going through the Russian classic books. Tolstoi, Tourgueniev, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and other genius compatriots developed my emotion of a “soul in pain”, specific and well known for Russians.

Well years later, by chance of my fate, after surviving through the tough times of perestroika and deficit, ambitious and hard work, I found myself in the miraculous region of the Alps, integrating into Swiss and French cultures, breathing in the fresh mountain air. It was there, that I realised my need to express everything that has been stacked and packed inside for too long, I have a beautifu...

2017 Expo collective, Ecole-club Migros, Nyon, Switzerland
2017 Expo collective, Bolero galerie, Versoix, Switzerland
2018 Expo collective, Ecole-club Migros, Nyon, Switzerland
2019 Expo collective, Espace 52 galerie, Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland