Olga Naletova, 1966 | Surrealist painter

Ольга Налётова was born in St.Petersburg.

Finished Ioganson’s Art College at the USSR Academy of Arts.

In 1990 graduated from I.E.Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the USSR Academy of Arts.

Faculty of Painting. Neprintsev’s Studio.

Member of the Union of Artists of St.Petersburg from 1992. Member of the Union of Artists of Moscow Lives and works in Moscow.

- "My name is Olga Naletova, I am an oil painter.

I currently live and work in Moscow.

Sometimes I wonder, what reasons made me devote my life to painting, why every day, seven days a week do I pick up brushes and squeeze multicolored volcanoes of paint onto my palette?"

- "To paint a picture is always a bit of a gamble. You make up a story, decide who the main characters will be, what faces and postures they will have – and you just paint and add details and emotions along the way.

This way a brand new world grows up on a canvas, which hardly belongs to you and lives its own life now…"

- "That is exactly what makes up the main reward and motivitation - was that really me who made it, is this new living space actually my work?

Every time it is a bit surprising and sometimes, in case the painting is successfully finished, very joyful.

These are the exact feelings that drive me to take up brushes - what if this time everything goes well again and I pass this quest and a new story will be born a white canvas surface".