Natalia Mikhailovna Petruk is a professional artist who celebrates her native region in her work.
In 1996 she graduated as from the Omsk State Pedagogical University, specializing in the teaching of art, and since then she has worked as a teacher in the Mezhdurechensk Children’s School of Art. In 2018 she was appointed director of Art School No. 6.
Natalia Petruk draws and paints. Her works include beautiful oil paintings and water colors, as well as drawings. She has experimented with a number of different genres, but landscape painting has always been her primary focus.
In her works the artist shares the beauty of Siberia’s awesome landscapes with viewers: the high mountains and dense forest, the streams winding through narrow valleys, the picturesque villages and the suburbs of her native city. The artist’s brush brings to life the natural world: the mountain rivers rush headlong on their course, the snow-white clouds with their fantastic shapes glide calmly across a deep blue sky, the graceful young birch trees and ancient fir trees stretch upwards and the forest murmurs.
Her painting Morning depicts an attractive scene in Mountain Shoria: bathed in the first rays of the Sun, a small settlement is nestled under the limitless sky. In her depiction of the wealth and majesty of Siberia’s forests, the artist conveys her love for this land. Using broad, bold brush strokes, the artist gives body to the treetops and conveys the texture of the ground and creates a sense of depth and distance, filling the canvas with light and air.
With a single quick, dynamic brush stroke she adds to the canvas a tree stretching for the sky or a bush spreading out its leafy branches. By a skillful application of paint, she emphasizes the height and density of the forest. With her feeling for nature and its movements, she recreates on her canvas the bright colors and freshness of the summer greenery, conveying to the viewer a sense of the scale and grandeur of the landscape she is depicting.
Mountain Shoria, the region that inspired her to paint Morning, is famed for its unique nature, the many fine locations in its national parks, its dense forests and its clear mountain rivers and lakes.
A Turkic people, the Shorians, or Kuznetsk Tatars, have lived in this region for centuries. The indigenous Shorians followed shamanism - they worshipped Nature and honored the spirits of the mountains, lakes, rivers and forests.
Before setting out on a fishing trip, the Shorians used to pray for good luck to the water spirit Sug-Eezi. When setting out on a hunting trip, the hunters poured out offerings of drink to the spirit Tag-Eezi at the foot of the mountain.
Various species of trees were also sacred to the Shorians. These were seen as intermediaries between the forest world and humans. When they arrived at a hunting site, the Shorians began by choosing a mighty cedar or spruce tree and making a sacrifice to it in order to ask the holy tree for success in their undertaking. The local people particularly venerated birch trees.
Natalia Petruk’s painting vividly expresses the mystery and beauty of the region’s mountains and forests, and viewers are struck by the poetry of the landscape.
In 1996 she graduated as from the Omsk State Pedagogical University, specializing in the teaching of art, and since then she has worked as a teacher in the Mezhdurechensk Children’s School of Art. In 2018 she was appointed director of Art School No. 6.
Natalia Petruk draws and paints. Her works include beautiful oil paintings and water colors, as well as drawings. She has experimented with a number of different genres, but landscape painting has always been her primary focus.
In her works the artist shares the beauty of Siberia’s awesome landscapes with viewers: the high mountains and dense forest, the streams winding through narrow valleys, the picturesque villages and the suburbs of her native city. The artist’s brush brings to life the natural world: the mountain rivers rush headlong on their course, the snow-white clouds with their fantastic shapes glide calmly across a deep blue sky, the graceful young birch trees and ancient fir trees stretch upwards and the forest murmurs.
Her painting Morning depicts an attractive scene in Mountain Shoria: bathed in the first rays of the Sun, a small settlement is nestled under the limitless sky. In her depiction of the wealth and majesty of Siberia’s forests, the artist conveys her love for this land. Using broad, bold brush strokes, the artist gives body to the treetops and conveys the texture of the ground and creates a sense of depth and distance, filling the canvas with light and air.
With a single quick, dynamic brush stroke she adds to the canvas a tree stretching for the sky or a bush spreading out its leafy branches. By a skillful application of paint, she emphasizes the height and density of the forest. With her feeling for nature and its movements, she recreates on her canvas the bright colors and freshness of the summer greenery, conveying to the viewer a sense of the scale and grandeur of the landscape she is depicting.
Mountain Shoria, the region that inspired her to paint Morning, is famed for its unique nature, the many fine locations in its national parks, its dense forests and its clear mountain rivers and lakes.
A Turkic people, the Shorians, or Kuznetsk Tatars, have lived in this region for centuries. The indigenous Shorians followed shamanism - they worshipped Nature and honored the spirits of the mountains, lakes, rivers and forests.
Before setting out on a fishing trip, the Shorians used to pray for good luck to the water spirit Sug-Eezi. When setting out on a hunting trip, the hunters poured out offerings of drink to the spirit Tag-Eezi at the foot of the mountain.
Various species of trees were also sacred to the Shorians. These were seen as intermediaries between the forest world and humans. When they arrived at a hunting site, the Shorians began by choosing a mighty cedar or spruce tree and making a sacrifice to it in order to ask the holy tree for success in their undertaking. The local people particularly venerated birch trees.
Natalia Petruk’s painting vividly expresses the mystery and beauty of the region’s mountains and forests, and viewers are struck by the poetry of the landscape.
