Galina Uzhdavini
Artist. Born in Ufa. Graduated from the Faculty of "Environmental Design" at the Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and also completed a course at the Paideia School of Contemporary Art Interpretation, St. Petersburg. From 2007–2014 she worked as an architect in a studio. After exploring various genres and techniques, she chose figurative oil painting as her principal subject. In her works she combines classically rendered figures with abstract bright and neutral grounds, and also employs textures created with gold leaf and mixed-media washes. She paints landscapes and experiments in the encaustic technique.
