NATALINA REPINA     - Russia 

Her Biography

“Within Natalia Repina’s artistic research, the expressive plasticity of the depicted subjects stems from a technical and executional mastery, clearly visible in the painterly application, able to explore new forms of nature. It is precisely Nature that provides a fundamental interpretive drive in Repina’s art, with its typical inspirations of memory and its gentle, light tone.
Refined is her way of painting in broad brushstrokes, marked by meticulous shading, carrying subtle and pleasing colour transitions free of contrasts and chromatic oppositions. Instead, a mood of extraordinary compositional balance reigns in Natalia Repina’s canvases, revealing a boundless love for artistic experimentation and inner expression.
The harmony of forms and colours fits well with the representational need for lyrical mark-making, a key feature in defining the modus operandi of the artist from Saint Petersburg.
In her works one can trace the lesson of great masters of the past and illustrious names in art such as Cézanne and Italian Magical Realism, with inevitable influences from Russian painting movements which, too, convey the unforgettable impressions of the heart.”
Dr. Sabrina Falzone, Art Critic and Art Historian

“Natalia Repina aims to transfer the impressions of real, multidimensional life onto the two-dimensional canvas, with its related limitations and advantages, which make it possible to preserve forever a life of the soul, with the help of colours and forms. It can be said that the constant reference to reality is the main source, an effective impulse for the poetic transformation of all that one sees. Indeed, this is the artist’s main characteristic”..
Prof. Anatoly Dmitrenko, Art Critic and Historian, Museologist
“Natalia Repina, an artist rich in international experience, remains faithful to the need to paint vision according to the canons of figurative art, continuing to think of Art as creation and not as chaos, to practise it as the production of forms, not as tearing apart—a choice not for everyone, because it implies rules and duties both towards nature and towards anatomy. Rules the artist has achieved through study and the sacrifice of practice; a more difficult but more rewarding choice, a choice that follows a tradition, pushing art into the living debate and into the capacity of those who have been able to place in their work soul, character and light, capable of giving quality and history to representation.”
Art critic Giorgio Falossi.

“Female sensuality finds full expressive definition in the nudes of Natalia Repina, an artist who, with great sensitivity, attends to introspection and intimacy.
Her works are permeated by a remarkable aesthetic research, highlighted by the elegance of the line, which places her at an artistic level of the highest value.”
Prof. Claudio Lepri, art critic