"Морозное утро" (2015) Painting by Tasha Leo

Hello, my name is Tasha and I'm Ukrainian. I was born in a beautiful city of Kharkov, where there are a lot of greenery, many cafes where a wonderful, aromatic coffee is brewed. I was born in a city where there are many, many young people, beautiful and talented, where the most wonderful opera house with the biggest in Europe scene, where in the morning in parks and public gardens you can meet artists and musicians, where the flight of thought takes its final form. In a word, my Kharkov, my creative city. They say that the artist needs to be born. Nothing of the kind, I'm sure that this artist is sleeping in each of us, we just need to be able to wake him up. The most vivid example of this is Van Gogh. He started painting at the age of 27, left the earthly life at 37 years old. For 10 years he became one of the most famous and one of the most "expensive" artists of our time. So I think if you really want to, you can learn. So it was with me. I am self-taught, as a child I often stayed home with grandmothers, who said that the TV does not teach anything good and it should be watched "in small portions", and she gave me these small portions in the form of cartoons. However, I was not bored - I lived in a world of my fantasies ... I read a lot, read everything that I could find, and then I painted what accumulated my brain, not yet spoiled by my life, and what I dreamed up my convolutions.
How often I remember, I always drew. On any scrap of paper, anywhere: at school all the notebooks were hacked in the classroom, on the bus, when we went to my aunt's place in the village, I was dumbfounded by the shaking of the country road, in line for milk, visiting - everywhere I sat quietly with a pencil and that she peed, panting hard over the scrap of paper ..
Parents, looking at my "masterpieces" perceived everything as a hobby and said that the profession should be serious, so to speak - fundamental. So I became an economist, enrolled in the Kharkov Institute of Public Nutrition.But painting has always settled in my heart and I want to introduce you to it. Welcome to my world and my "heart"!

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1966
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Ukrainian Contemporary Artists