Artist: Tatyana Kulida Shelley | Location: Wilmington, NC
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Artist: Tatyana Kulida Shelley | Location: Wilmington, NC
Wilmington, NC
Tatyana Shelley is a figurative and portrait artist with a life long passion for the arts. She received her BA in Studio Art in 2003 from the Queens University of Charlotte in NC, and her MA in Arts Administration from Winthrop University. During and after her studies, Tatyana was drawn to portraiture and figurative work; but, creating and exhibiting work as a realist artist proved to be difficult. Tatyana realized she was missing the mastery of her medium. She turned to the study of drawing and painting in classical tradition in Italy at the Florence Academy of Art, a world-known school providing professional training for a realist painter where training is rooted in study from nature, understanding the pictorial language of light and form and extensive training of the eye. Tatyana graduated the FAA in 2013. She now splits her time between Florence, Italy and Wilmington, NC where she shares what she has learned with her students at the Cameron Museum School and paints commissioned portraits.