Julia Tretiakova

I am inspired by nature and beauty, and this is my source of power and ideas. Watercolors, - live, moving, unstable material - let me transfer my emotions, wind and xxxxs of sea waves, sound of dry grass, rays of sun caught in the leaves of trees, - into my art. Watercolor stops in its movement and this is the most beautiful thing I find about it.

Since 2020 I work in the genre of watercolor improvisation, establishes and popularized worldwide by Ekaterina Maltseva, a Russian born artist based in Italy. The art is created in the moment of drawing, without preliminary sketch on paper, just on the blank white field of watercolor paper, when the artist is a partner of watercolor, it is a kind of mutual dialogue, interaction with the material, color, water, when the result is totally unique and unpredictable. 

I am a self-taught artist, born on 21.11.1978 in the Kaliningrad region, Russia, graduated from the Kaliningrad State University in 2000, specializing in English and literature, worked in Kaliningrad, Moscow, SPb in various companies. I am married, has two children. 

I’ve always had an interest to arts, participated in various art programs, entered a magistrate course in the Russian Humanitarian University in Moscow «Culturology and the XXth century», participated in art tours to Wien, Barcelona, and I am still in the process of studying the world culture and art theory. 

I am seriously in arts since 2019, constantly studying and practicing. I found my media at once, in the very beginning - it’s watercolor, now I am experimenting with other media. I had my personal exhibition in 2022 and participated in collective exhibitions in Moscow and SPb (Erarta Museum).