Biography: Katia is a very talented Russian painter who is also an India addict. She is a self-taught painter who has traveled various places and takes much of her inspiration from the simple things in nature and from cultural heritage of a place. As early as 16 years, she developed a keen interest in the subcontinent and found her way into Indian art and culture, its religion and wide diversity of visual aesthetics. She slowly studied Mogul paintings and folk art to develop a unique style that has a European colour and sensual appeal with folk-narratives of an Indian demeanor. In an interview to ArtVantage, she said, “my paintings are all about meditation and a new consciousness in ethnology practice. Here works are laid with every single detail and colour, while rendering accurately the frills of tribal jewellery worn by a village woman or the styles in their clothes etc. Every canvas is filled with a life story, albeit a simple one. Sometimes it’s the myth, in other occasions it’s the simple peasant life that I portray”. 

Katia aspires to learn and paint following the Indian tradition of folk and wants to draw her attention to the simple, beautiful and yet profound ways of the Indian women. She has been a journalist before being a full time painter and her inspiration in art came from Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh and from his fellow friend Paul Gauguin. One can really find in her art a close resemblance of Gauguin’s new artistic evocation where he found among the Tahitian islanders the real mirror of the life’s beauty and simplicity. Far away from the artificiality and the conventionality of modern India, in the peasant villages and the backwaters, probably, Katia too will find her art reflecting back and answering the questions once asked by Gauguin in his painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897-98).

Exhibitions:
1.May 2009 - Art Center "Jagannath", Moscow, Kuzneckiy Most str.
2.September 2009 - Yoga Center "Birthlight", Moscow, Staromonetniy alley 18

Artist: Katia Peshakova
Date of Birth: 17th Jan, 1985
Country: Russia
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Exhibition  from 20th June, Sunday till 20th July Tuesday at the Jagannath Café (*), Moscow (click here for press release)

* Jagannath Cafe, Moscow, Kuznetsky most 11.
Contact details:
Ph:   8 903 739 5858
Email:
  anushila@me.com (Anna)
Website:
     www.jagannath.ru

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