Natalia has been painting since she was twelve. She went to several art schools, finally graduating from Mukhina High School of Art in St. Petersburg. In spite of her many jobs, painting has always been her main occupation, hobby, vocation and joy. In 1997 Natalia moved to Copenhagen together with her family. During her first year in Denmark she paid her tribute to the usual artistic attractions such as Nyhavn and Christianshavns Kanal. Later on, her art drifted away from the tourist routes to the quiet streets of the city and the interiors of her own flat. In her very latest works this austerity seems to have broken into a new opennes. The mental space of the artist s imagination reaches as far of the Book of Genesis. Natalia Fedorova Her palette at that time has changed as well. When Natalia is getting tired of painting she tries something new, especially at winter time when the light is dull, then she creates masks or experiments with new techniques and materials, and sometimes with video films. During the artist s fourteen years life in Denmark Natalia succeeded to make more than thirty exhibitions at such venues as Carlsberg Museum, The royal library of Copenhagen and many local art societies in Denmark, where her paintings have been selling successfully. On her exhibitions one can easily see a huge developing of the artist s mental world, where dreams and reality meet together. Her works have been purchased for private collections in USA and many countries of Europe. Natalia is not very keen on talking about her works. Instead, she lets her paintings talk.
The Artist and her Family The first 2½ years Natalia spent at an orphanage, then by some miracle she found herself in a real home adopted by a Russian Jewish woman, the kindest human being she has ever met in her life. The adoptive mother loved Natalia as if she were her own child. The family where the child was growing up had given her all necessary knowledge about different matters before she started her own independent life. Natalia was lucky to grow up next to such a person as Igor Diakonov who was married to the sister of her adoptive mother. Natalia Fedorova with her mother Elena Shneider Natalia Fedorova Photo taken in Carlsberg park in Copenhagen Igor Diakonov was a great research scientist of ancient and modern history and also oriental languages (languages of the Middel East). He was a person whose knowledge and perceptions of the world were unlimited and wide. His spiritual and moral principles often made many people feel ashamed of themselves.
This person whom Natalia loved like a father gave her the main ideas about good and evil. He also helped her, as well as her mother did, to find the right orientations both in life and in the world of art. For this reason Natalia shows their photographs on her site. Natalia started learning art at the age of 12 having had many different teachers during her young years. The very first teacher happened to be Helena Speranskaya and Sergei Titov, two young students of St. Petersborg Academy of Arts at the time. To them she owes a great deal as well. Later on Natalia went to a secondary Art school at St. Petersborg Academy of Arts where socialistic realism was the main politically correct idea among the teachers, but fortunately it started dying away at that time in Russia. The artist got her diploma not without trouble. Igor Diakonov got his Honores Causa mantle at The Harvard University In 1983 Natalia finally finished her final education in art and graduated from Mukhina Applied College with diploma of industrial art designer. This is how the artist s introduction to the world of art was completed. However, Natalia s passion for all these years was painting. In 1983 the artist married Dmitri Diakonov, a nuclear physicist and middle son of Igor Diakonov. In 1984 she gave birth to a boy whom they called Andrei. It was not easy to find time for painting through the first years of Andrei s childhood. A real creativity started developing after Natalia became more free and got a chance to dedicate Dmitri Diakonov with his son Andrei and grandmother L. Magasiner
all her time to painting. Throughout her first 9 years in Copenhagen (to where the family moved in 1997), where her husband got a position at Nordita (Nordic institute for Theoretical Physics), she was constantly developing different styles and techniques which helped her to have 18 exhibitions at many venues in Copenhagen. Family portrait Natalia & Peter Kjærgaard-Petersen In February 2005 Natalia divorced her first husband who decided to return to St. Petersburg. The same year she met a Dane, the lawyer Peter Kjærgaard-Petersen who became her real friend and year later her beloved husband.
Cours of Drawing and Painting The classes will be created for children as well as for adults where one can get start from the beginning and make a good progress pretty fast. Tutorials will take a place both indoors and outdoors where everyone can enjoy many exciting tasks. Classes may take a place in the artist s studio in Peter Bangasvej 161, in Frederiksberg, that is very close to KB Hallen station. There is a bus number 14 running pretty often between the centre and KB Hallen. Tutorials are directing in the afternoon as well as in the evening. To get more information please contact with the artist on her mobile phone: 41 60 35 45 Natalia Fedorova offers classes, where the keywords are: The first steps in practical skills Study of nature = drawing lesson The academic approach (schools, traditions, concepts) Learn to work with: Oil Paints and Acrylic Artist Colors Gouache and Tempera Paints Water-colours and Pigments Colour Pencils and Pastels Auxiliary materials
Exhibitions Natalia Fedorova exhibit a number of works in Hamburg. Exhibition open doors to the public. Exhibition at the Marziart Internationale Galerie Eppendorfer Weg 110-112 20259 Hamburg Germany Tel. 0049-40-23518894 www.marziart.com info@marziart.com Exhibition at the Marion Zimmermann 05. August 31. August 2011 Tuesday & Wednesday 14:00 pm. 20:00 pm. Thursday & Friday 14:00 pm. 18:00 pm. Varnishing-day Friday, 5th. August 2011
Purchase You can buy the original art works displayed on the site or order directly with the artist oil paintings, gouaches, drawings and masks. You can buy A4 or A3 photographic reproductions of the items, such as paintings and photo collages. If a buyer is interested in other formats, it is also possible to print. You can also buy albums with works by Natalia Fedorova. Information about the art works, as the title, material, dimensions, price, listed under each picture. In case of sending the purchased art work by mail or courier must be added the cost of shipping. According to the customer sending the work can be insured. In this case, the buyer bears the additional costs. The prices are negotiable and in special cases we can offer discounts for our clients. To receive more information about the purchase of a painting, you can contact us by e-mail, or by using conventional mail to the following address: Taarbaek Strandvej 91 B, 3 th DK-2930 Klampenborg Denmark Phone: (+45) 39 63 05 36 Mobile phone: (+45) 41 60 35 45
About the Site On this site you can find out about different aspects of the creativity of the Russian artist, Natalia Fedorova, who was born in St. Petersburg and lived there until 1997. Since then she is constantly living in Denmark where her painting has been developing a lot. Natalia is always trying to follow classical roots in the world of art, but at the same time she also is trying to find new aspects and forms in her painting. Her favourite subjects are landscape and still life where the artist drifts from academic canons to more simple, decorative colour solution. Sometimes her interests step away from reality and then she s experimenting with dry leaves and flowers wherein the artist s task is to show the harmony of nature and abundance of colour nuances. Natalia is fascinated by the nature of her new home. She uses to say that autumn simply is that time where she can inhale happiness from every breath, every fragrance of the forest. On this site you can enjoy looking at the paintings and drawings, photo collages and photographs and also ask questions to get more information. To get more information about purchase you may click on Purchase. You can buy the original art works or you can buy A4 or A3 photographic reproductions of the items, such as paintings and photo collages. If a buyer is interested in other formats, it is also possible to print. You can also buy albums with works by Natalia Fedorova. The prices are negotiable and in special cases we can offer discounts for our clients. Welcome to our gallery!
www.nfgallery.dk On this site you can: find out about different aspects of the creativity of the Russian artist, Natalia Fedorova get information about future exhibitions get information about purchase of works buy the original art works order photographic reproductions of the items, such as paintings and photo collages order oil paintings, gouaches or drawings buy originals of the printed albums with the works of the author make a request to attend courses of a fine arts