STAR: How did you become a
painter?
GALINA.S: I guess thanks to my
mother’s encouragement She handed
me a pencil when I was just one year
old. I can’t remember this fact, but she
told that everybody around accused
her that a child may hurt her eyes.
Well, the consequences were heavier,
not for eyes, but for the family - the
child became an artist...
STAR: Can you remember you
first commission like a painter?
GALINA.S: If to speak about the
first one, - it was also due to my
grandmother. One time she proposed
me to paint some different flowers on
the kitchen wall every day seems I
was over 6-7y.old... yes, I had a lot of
freedom in child time...
But on the professional level, the first
commission was just after I graduat-
ed from the art college, it was some
Maurer with autumn landscape over
5-6 meters in length.
STAR: Is anyone in your family a professional painter?
GALINA.S: No, it was not like any art school methods either. In my early childhood, they read to
me lot of books and then I learned to draw something from this narrative. Especially my grandmoth-
er, a school teacher herself would guide me.I used to ask her to tell me some new fairytale, every-
day...seems like she never refused me... And this fantastic world is visualized and later it turned to
be my passion ... at first, it was just color pencils and felt-tip pens, then I moved to watercolor.
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