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Nataliya Dobrovolska

Date and place of birth: 08.08.1975, Ostrogh, Ryvne region, Ukraine. I live and work in Uzhgorod.

Education: artist, ceramist, College of Arts in Uzhgorod named after Erdely graduated with honors diploma.

Exhibitions:

• 1997 - family opening day "The spring gem",
• 2002- personal exhibition in Uzhgorod, exhibition Hall Of Artist Union.
• 2007 - personal exhibition in Uzhgorod, exhibition Hall Of Artist Union.
• 2009 - Ukrainian Art Week in Kyiv, House Of Artist
• 2009 - personal exhibition Gallery "Berva" in Kyiv, Andriyivskyy Descent

About:

At the beginning an idea appears, and then material is chosen, after – execution technique.

Painting on glass is divided into some series:

decorative still lives and landscapes;

religious pictures;

"Temperature painting" - each colour represents temperature in accordance with scale on picture's side;

"Fluent translation"- verses, where each word is reproduced by an individual image;

"Traveling in time" – pictures with two-four glass-levels, where periods of time moves away accordingly to perspective: autumn- winter-spring …, evening-night-morning…

The pictures were painted with oil on glass on the opposite side from a spectator. Sometimes I use appliqués made from glass, metal, gilding. I use two-three levels of glass. It makes possible to create an additional effect of perspective and volume.

I am interested in ceramics from my childhood, "from puddles near my house". It's a good realization of the sense of humor. On the whole there are penny whistles, majolica, handmade modeling; decoration: engobe, glaze, glossing, scratch, stamping, sticking etc.

I liked to use bottles for interior decoration, and then some ideas appeared. At the present time I paint it inside with oil. For this purpose I use flexible brushes for different bottle forms and deepness of picture location.

Water colour is a technique that I used for paining my first drawings in my childhood. Afterwards I use it for sketches, and for the last time it takes my breath away and I paint by water colours