NATALIA RUDZINA

I “was born” in orchestra pit of Opera House of Minsk, capital of Belarus. My parents were musicians. I was quite little girl, sat on the toll, contrabass chair, surround by music and looked spellbound at the stage.

Up to 20 years, Opera House was my  temple. I studied in music school, then in  artistic school for children( painting and drawing). But not only that shaped my creative manner . Summer school holidays in the former Soviet Union lasted 3 months. The parents often took me with  them on tour in the coastal towns : Sochi, Kaliningrad, I saw the great rivers and seas, great Cities of that vast country. It leaves an indelible mark on my soul. . By train, I loved to visit not only the evening performances, but sat and looked at the rehearsals and auditions singers. When the tour were in not very interesting cities I have spent holidays in the countryside among the legendary, magic, Belarusian forests. In addition to music, theater and nature, my weakness has always been a movie. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1977, I began working in television. While at the Minsk television were plays  for children, musical performances, literary and dramatic plays ... I created, for example “Alice in Wonderland”, “ Moomintroll “ of Tove Jansson, Music  Salon with a prominent Eleonora Ezerskaya. I performed this task  in so various genres and styles according to the will of the director.. but I wanted to work independently…. so appeared canvas and paint... where( which)  mixed music, dancing and singing grass, meadows, snow, people, towns (cities), seen in a dream, or remembered from childhood or perhaps inspired by the movie or backstage theatre. I going down into the deep ocean, flying into space… I created forgotten and imagined the beauty- ballerina(S) and mysterious Diva ( s) or spirits  from the forest.

I was always tormented by the question: why people perceive ( feels) music brighter than painting or drawing ... .... I had set itself the problem arises to the viewer of musical perception of painting, and when I get such comments, I think that I was going in the right creative path.( I consider that I go on a faithful creative way).

 I have exhibited in the gallery "Art Salon" in Minsk. I was popular not only for my country-people but also to foreigners willing to buy my pictures. In hard times, I ventured migrating to Germany, while Germans also with pleasure bought my pictures. ... But in Germany look to the art a few another (and I had to start everything from a zero.)(and I feel somewhat confused) .

Natalia Rudzina, Belarus / Germany