Inna Tsukakhina, Russia
Colorful fantasies
Looking at the works of Krasnodar artist Inna Tsukakhina you get an impression that she acknowledges no bounds to limit her pictorial creativeness, which is characterized mainly by light enthusiasm, gentle lines and rich colors. Her style is conditioned by her mild character, amazing femininity and sociability. It’s a special delight to observe Inna’s creative process. Sometimes you get an idea that her brush floats in the air and the idea itself sticks to the canvas.
Inna gets her inspiration first of all from Renaissance artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Rafael and Russian brush masters: Serov, Vrubel, Bryullov. And of course her childish impressions played one of the main roles in forming Inna as a painter with her own particular manner. Her teenage infatuation for ballet greatly influenced her feeling of beauty and striving for naturalism. Plasticity and refined femininity at canvases of the artist fascinate and captivate the audience. Most women at her pictures are extremely airy and nice, full of musing and charm. Not in vain some of the characters are depicted with wings; this emphasizes heavenly beauty and romanticism of the composition in general.
Krasnodar Art College and later Kiev Art Academy, which is considered to be a worthy school for a painter, enabled Inna to work out and consolidate her own style and find her own technique of painting. Mixing some types of oil painting, such as glazing and pastozing helped the artist to self-actualize many creative ideas. Active exhibit activity, travelling, wide relations sphere among people of creative professions constantly enrich experience of the painter. Main inspiration source is nature in particular flowers. Her fanciful and at the same time ordinary irises and lilies, sprawling branches of lilac seem alive. They never leave indifferent anyone understanding beauty. Inna does not stint diversity of colors and fully exploits the whole pallet, which gives taste and originality to her paintings. She is not afraid of experiments, still being a whole-hearted person with individual approach to creative process, which she considers to be as important as a final result.
Creative work of Inna Tsukakhina was greatly influenced by her living in Czech Republic; since 2002 she is a Master of Prague Arts Academy. In this country everything breaths beautiful old times emanating from gorgeous architecture and incredibly refined cultural traditions. Once visiting this country and spending some time there, you can’t stop admiring incredibly felicitous concord of modern and old times. Inna Tsukakhina is for sure one of the most notable artists of Kuban, besides she is quite known in other regions of our country and abroad. Her works, displayed at international exhibitions, are familiar to the Europeans. Her still live painting and portraits enrich private and state collection in Japan, the USA, Belgium, Germany, Austria and other countries.
Anton Tokhadze, journalist
