Tatyana Palchuk
The European – Baltic Artist Tatyana Palchuk.
Tatyana Palchuk was born in 1954 and lived all her life in Riga, in a small area between the Art Academy and Elizabeth Street. Already during kindergarten, teachers predicted the little drawer an artist's destiny. Although nobody was connected to arts in the family, she was constantly drawing in the sand with a stick in hands. Tatyana lost her relatives in soviets Stalins represions ( She have Ukrainian Dona’s Kozaks , Russian ,Hebrew roots) , and father at an early age and has been growing independently as other 50ies - 60ies kids, and she was the eternal engine and captain of the yard kids. Tatyana enrolled Rozentals Art School by herself even not informing her mum. The artist tells that becoming an artist was not as easy as pie for her, and she had drawn on to the level of the more talented school and academy members, in her opinion, only by thorough and accurate work. Her teachers are indisputable stars of Latvia and Europe Art - Imants Vecozols, Pēteris Postažs, Boriss Bērziņš, Edgars Iltners and academic Eduards Kalniņš. She has been among the few who have done the postgraduate course or workshop with the academic Eduards Kalniņš.
Tatyana is proud to have had the honour and uncommon confidence to visit and grow artistically at the academic's home, and studio and have him at her small studio of only 12m2 in the Elizabeth Street apartment. The experience and know-how given by these art Grands have been invaluable and it has helped Tatyana to grow the one and only art figure, she has become. Tatyana has been living quite a secluded self-centered life of an artist. Therefore she can't be spotted at any parties, exhibitions and other events so typical in the world of arts. Tatyana doesn't attend contemporary art exhibitions and she finds her inspiration going to Europe culture centres rejoicing in Renaissance, Hollandaise, Italian and other world treasure artworks at famous galleries and museums. One of her favourite art museums is Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, which she visits yearly. Tatyana's motto is that anything new hasn't been invented but it has already existed, a Human is only a small part of macrocosm breathing harmoniously around us with microcosm inside itself, which is possibly as infinite. She is to no extent affected by the modern trends and loud attempts to draw attention to onself. The main characteristics of her works are positivism, humanism and harmony with the united world. They have been drawn in an excellent painting technique and mixing modern and ancient - a manner characteristic only for this artist. No doubt it is psychologically a quite tricky road, always to be a bit of a stranger among peers. But there are a great many Tatyana's art admirers scattered all around the world. Her works are in collections in many world countries, likewise in repositories of the Russian Art Union and Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. During the peak years of creativity, Tatyana had excellent success at international competitions and art markets ( sells in Top 15, Ravenel Auction House). Last year's significant exhibitions was participation at international painting exhibitions in New York, Rome , Palermo , Antwerpen, Spain, Denmark , Germany , Taiwan , Czech Republic and other world art centres.
