Natalia Czarnecka from the family of SKVORTSOV,was born in

Russia in a very small and very old town,called Kolomna,150 km from Moscow.

                This ancient architecture, many monasteries,Orthodox churches, all projects have been built by Kazakov, the most famous architect,formed a reach atmosphere for her oeuvre.

 

               Born in a family of visual artists,grandfather worked with wood,he  was cabinetmaker and instrument maker (was doing all the musical instruments and put them to play),and very  good art painter.

          Father of Natalia,brother and her aunty,they are also very good painters,this talent  passed from ancestors and from the lineage of talented artists,from generation to generation.

 

              And why she paints icons? She’s in love in childhood icons,she had a lot of icons in the family home,because her grandmother was a very religious person,she admired the frescoes of Orthodox monasteries and Natalia from childhood dreamed to learn to paint icons.

 

               She finished the school of icon painting at the Holy Orthodox Church in Russia,Tihon at the world famous master Vadzim Sawina.The teacher always says to Natalia,that she has her own style.

            Surely every icon of Natalji is original and exceptional.She is doing everything by herself from the beginning until the end,starting with grinding boards,gilging,creation of paints and pigments in the ancient technique of emulsion of eggs,and writing icons.

 

               She wrote and write icons,on request.

 

              She is writing the icons already 17 years ,and learned it from the elite school of writing icons, in Russia,called « Russkaya ICON 21st Century »

– iconographic center in Moscow.

 

              In this moment,Natalia learns in Paris,in the best  school of ART,

called « La Bonne Graine CFA-école d’ameublement de PARIS » where she improved her knowledge and qualification,as a master in the field of gilding,with gold leaf,silver leaf and also as restorer of works of art.

 

            Natalia Czarnecka is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Europe and France. During the 17 years of her artistic activity,she has had exhibitions in Russia, France, Poland (Rzeszow, Tarnobrzeg, Warsaw,Lublin, Kazimierz Dolny, Wroclaw, Krakow,Sandomierz,Mielec,Kolbuszowa, and other cities),in Slovakia, in Italy (Rome).