Lilies of the valley

Gala Kolomenskaya, Kazakhstan

Galina Kolomenskaya was born in Kazakhstan, the city of Karaganda. While studying at a secondary school, she studied at the children's art school in Karaganda, from which she graduated with honors. Already in those years, she began to participate in exhibitions and festivals of children's creativity. After school, Galina studied and successfully graduated from the Karaganda State University of Professional Fine Art Faculty in 1997. Specialization- painter. Since 2014, Member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The reason to create a picture can be anything - emotions, experiences, sounds, combinations of colors, shapes, lines in the surrounding world. The aim of the artist is not a reliable representation of reality, but a completely new world, which is the result of rethinking. Often the paintings are somewhat fantastic, their characters live their own lives, the emotionality and style of which are emphasized by bright colors. The artist is constantly engaged in exhibition activities - annual personal and combined regional exhibitions in his city, as well as abroad. The artist's works have repeatedly received prizes at international contemporary painting competitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg (Russia). They were also included in the TOP 100 of the International Art Festival in New York (USA), and were printed in the catalogs. The works of this author are in the Local History Museum of Temirtau, the Museum of Fine Arts of Karaganda, collections of the Ministry of Defense and in private collections and galleries of Kazakhstan, Russia, USA, Germany, Belgium, etc.