Paradise bird (2019) Painting by Natasha Lyapkina

Natasha Lyapkina is a contemporary painter whose work is an exploration of process, technique and life.  

“I was born and raised in Grodno, Belarus. My interest in art began at the age of 6 when my  grandmother took me to art section in local children- pioneer center. And my art journey began. I remember I won  in the contest about animals in the Grodno zoo , the prize was a huge encyclopedia of birds and most importantly 5 peacock feathers, to my happiness there was no limit. I also found a deep passion to portraiture people in my early childhood” 

  After  5 years of studying  in the children’s art school  I  decided to pursue Fine Art and work in oils and in 2003 graduated from  Grodno State University art department  with distinction and moved to Poland for 5 years. It is there I first began exhibiting and selling my works. Since then, I has had a lot  of solo exhibitions in Poland and Belarus and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

Then the trip to Asia inspired to create a series of Burmese portraits, an exhibition that took place in Poland and Belarus, along with works of the legendary Myanmar artist M.P.P Yei Myint. After we ( I and my husband) widely travel around Asia.  

As for my style,I’m a representative,  figurative painter,  I prefer  portraiture with unusual detail or a strange plot, but not toxic and not depressive and looking for spontaneity, humor,  concise, capacious statements in art. I consider my individual  style as   ironic surrealism with great influence of classical realism and illustration.

I draw my  inspiration from painters of the last centuries  such as Paul Gauguin, René Magritte, Lucian Freud and from Indonesian sculpture, Japanese graphics. I am  also  passionate about contemporary  artists like Ruslan Vashkevich, Sergey Grinevich, Alexander Nekrashevich from Belarus. 

• Nationality: BELARUS
• Date of birth : 1980
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Belarusian Artists