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About Tatiana Roulin
Tatiana Roulin is a full time fine art artist and freelance graphic designer from Sharon, MA. Since her youth she possessed the ambition to be a full time creator. Being an artist is a second profession after being a software engineer. She has mastered two such a different fields as Computer Science and Fine Art. Tatiana holds two degrees: BFA (summa cum laude) from Moscow Pedagogical State University, Academic Drawing and Pictorial Art department (Moscow, Russia) and Master of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (summa cum laude) from Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University).
Additionally she has been studying fine art for several years under a very well know Russian realistic landscape painter Yury Gusev, who was connected with group of avant-garde, nonconformist artists known as “Twenty Moscow artists”. While her training was in traditional painting and academic drawing, her focus has been in possibility of combining several styles and techniques in order to discover something new, specifically in combining several mediums such as ink, watercolor and pastel, ink and oil, etc.
Currently Tatiana is working mostly in pastel and acrylic but she also works with oil, gouache, watercolor and ink. Short slogan of what she can do is “variety of styles and mediums” describes her art abilities the best.
Over the last years, Tatiana has received local, national, and international recognition and many art awards for her unique work. In 2009 she was awarded a highly regarded Italian art award “Medusa Aurea Trophy” presented by International Academy of Modern Art of Rome. Tatiana’s art has been published in a number of major art magazines such as Direct Art, Art is Spectrum, New York Magazine and also in a very respected European Art Catalog “Who is Who in Visual Art”. She is also a member of several art associations through the New England such as Foxboro Art Association, Franklin Art Association, Framingham Artists Guild and North River Arts Society.
She is also a member of the Brazilian National Academy of Fine Arts (Brazil) and Allied Artists of America, based in New York. Many of Tatiana’s artworks are in private collections in America and abroad. For more details about Tatiana’s art and upcoming exhibitions please check out her web site: www.3dmirror.com
Tatiana Roulin's Work
I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for so creating art to me is an additional way to communicate with this world around me. Henri Matisse once said: “Drawing is not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all means of expressing intimate feelings and moods".
I personally believe that drawing indeed is about expressing intimate feelings, thoughts, dreams and moods. I find my inspiration in traveling and in all surrounding things. My current portfolio represents three main subjects: Landscapes, Still Lifes and Portraits. I am equally comfortable working in all three lines. This variety gives me an opportunity to go, for example, from series of landscapes to series of Still Lifes, switch my attention and at the same time maintain a good share in all three subjects.
Painting full time, I accept the challenges each subject brings with excitement and vitality. What I try to capture in my pastel landscapes is more then just a visual likeness of places I have ever visited, it is also the mood and emotion that I experience in relation to what I am observing. In the acrylic series of my recent Still Lifes I am attempting to convey harmony and beauty of colors and composition plus I try to create my paintings in a way off the beaten track.
My method of working is most commonly that of direct painting. While doing Landscapes I prefer to work with the real scene with natural lighting as well as doing Still Lifes I normally create my paintings from the real studio set-ups with using a true light lamp. In my portraits I pay attention mostly to expressing emotions of the person. I am trying to make the painted person alive. I can create portraits both ways: direct painted portraits and portraits from photographs.
For some reason when I do commissioned portraits I prefer to work with photograph of the person I am working with. It gives me a plenty of time to reflect and think of the best way to embody the right atmosphere and details. Working with photograph doesn’t take too much time from the client as well, which is important in the present time because usually people cannot sit in the studio for hours. All in all in my paintings I pay a great deal of attention to composition, lighting, color and details. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoy painting them.
Tatiana Roulin uses Winsor & Newton because
it provides the best quality and it's a real pleasure to work with!
For further information on Tatiana Roulin visit:
www.3dmirror.com