I was born in Siberia in 1967. My father was self taught artist and he taught my mom to. Unfortunately they divorce and I stayed with my grandma for a wile.
I was drawing since I can hold pencil in my hands, but never thought about it like my future job. Later when I began to leave with mom in Uzbekistan I was helping her in work (mostly it was designs of offices).
At 15 I started to draw some portraits by pencil, and later watercolors.
At 18 I suddenly discovered in myself a talent for dance and choreography and every thing else was forgotten. My drawings were related to dance. But in that time I began designing the costumes (later, turned to designing my cloth, and party dresses), I also made jewelry for the stage (now I am beading jewelry for my self), study beauty of forms in posed dancing (like Eastern Indian classic dances), study the lighting (because was take care about all things in dancing show on the stage.
I was interesting more in oriental choreography, so circumstances (or Destiny?) brought me to work as a belly dancer to Jordan.
Ones I saw how one Iraqi artist painting on black velvet. I was shocked, astound by its contrast! My mom was with me at that time and she could explain to me some beginnings of oil work. I started, scared.
Later there, in Jordan, I was on the stage I meet my husband (I was foretold about meeting him many years before by a Russian fortuneteller). He is Egyptian-American, so now I’m an American to, but staying mostly in Egypt, Cairo.
I love this country and this city. I do not working as a dancer anymore but I give privet lessons. And here I finally understood how mach painting (especially oil) means for me. That is what I love to do until end of my life.