Natalia was born in St. Petersburg in 1981. At age 16 she began to paint, convinced that this will be a matter of her life. Later, she studied design at the St. Petersburg Marine Technical University and the Art and Industrial Academy. Stieglitz. A member of the joint (School barbaric analytism).
C 1998, Natalia was actively engaged in the workshop of the founder of this school AV Kondratyev *.
In her works celebrate an amazing sensitivity to color, texture, delicate sensibility, giving the plane of breath, and picture of personality. Operating with the power lines, spots, different color on the load of the material, the artist gives a picture of a concentrated, bounded by four edges, the point of the emotional experience of a ball in a given context.
* "Still Life was the main topic of creative research. We enthusiastically played the game with the objects that are transferred to image-psychological characteristics. Sometimes a still life treated as a landscape: varied scope, the outlines of objects acquired new meaning EXCLUSIVE importance were empty and pause , rhythmic repetition and monotony. Plastic effects of reverse perspective offered in a variety of its variants. space is deepened, then flattened, torn and collapsed. All that could give Russian icon-painting tradition, and that we were able to learn, was taken into service. "
Kondrat'ev /Three art. St. Petersburg. 2/2001. C. 44 /
http://www.shwa.ru/history/kocheveindex.html - a group of "nomadic"
http://www.shwa.ru/painters/vasilevaindex.html - Natalia Vasilyeva site Seam