Nadia Boldina | Artist Profile Photo
Nadia Boldina
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Artist Nadia Boldina paints impressionist views of small European villages and the surrounding nature. When I paint something - nature, architecture, a person - I am creating a portrait, says Nadia. After all, every object has a character and a hidden face! At university, Nadia studied watercolor and fell in love with the medium. All the while, she continued to strive for something more solid. Nadia began experimenting with oil paint. However, she says that she couldn't understand its character for a long time. Looking for guidance, she pored over the work of the old masters - Rembrandt, Rubens, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, and many others. Considering them as her primary teachers and consequently studying their approach to painting allowed Naida to grow in her art and become inspired by new works. Today, her studio is located in the apartment where she lives with her husband and two cats. It is a bright sunny room with white walls and a high ceiling where air flows. When in need of a break, Nadia spends time in nature and the outdoors, coming back to her studio invigorated and refreshed.
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Artist Statement

I have devoted most of my adult life to creating paintings. I started painting at the age of four and since then I have not stopped improving my skills in drawing and painting. The theme of tranquility and grace runs through my works. At a time when we are overloaded with noise when we live at high speeds, we consume all information superficially and are not in the moment, painting is grounding. Allows you to breathe out and feel in silence, in childhood. I strive for clean and harmonious shades so that the wandering gaze of the viewer slows down and rests. I work mostly in a realistic manner, adding decorative elements to my works. For this, most often I use classic oil painting and watercolor. I also dearly love graphics with ink and pen and am enthusiastic about creating paintings using this technique. The main theme of my work is the everyday life of a person and his psychological state. Modern society dictates the cult of success. Success in everything: career uphill, beautiful appearance without flaw, perfect figure, self-development at maximum speed, obedient children, travel every month. Constant employment, constant activity. People in big cities forget what it is like to stop, relax, and contemplate. And not for a few seconds, then to rejoin the race, but to do it as a routine practice. The everyday life of an ordinary person, with little joys, simple, ordinary, is what I want to highlight, to make visible. The main point is that you don't need to be special to be happy. You don't have to do something super important to live a good life and leave a good memory. Maintaining inner peace, self-support, inner support, and quiet grace are what I strive for in my life and what I want to show people.

Artist Background

Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Master of Arts in Painting, 2016
Moscow State University of Culture and Arts
Master of Arts in Artistic Textiles, 2011
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