Ramilya Fazleeva is the only craftsman stonecutter specializing in soft stone cutting in Bashkortostan who lives in Yanaul. Ramilya Nakibovna is an architect of residential and public buildings. Before retiring, she taught at a local art school, and worked as a set designer of the Yanaulsky theater ‘Hyatt’. In 2015, the ‘Gamayun’ Museum Center hosted a personal exhibition of her animalistic works ‘My Animals’.
Since her youth, the artist was fond of wood carving and wanted to work in this sphere. However, the teachers of the Kungur Art and Technical School, which Ramilya entered after finishing school, persuaded her to work with stone.
‘I have never regretted this choice. Apparently, because the teachers were good, they were able to captivate. And, of course, studying at the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute gave me a lot. And not only the learning process itself. It seems to me that there, in the capital of the Urals, it is simply impossible not to love everything that is connected with stone. The best stonecutters, the heroes of Bazhov — all of them are from there, ’ she recalled.
Ramilya Fazleeva works with wood, stone, clay, ice, and snow, paints and creates graphic works. There are both small and large sculptures among the artist’s works. For example, her composition “Setting Free” can be seen on the central alley of Mayakovsky Park in Yekaterinburg. There is a large white turtle climbing out of a stone. And the wooden sculptures created by Fazleeva are exhibited in Arkhangelsk and Yelsk.
But mostly Ramilya Nakibovna is interested in small scale sculptures, the ideas for which are suggested to her by the shape and texture of the chosen material. The artist said:
Since her youth, the artist was fond of wood carving and wanted to work in this sphere. However, the teachers of the Kungur Art and Technical School, which Ramilya entered after finishing school, persuaded her to work with stone.
‘I have never regretted this choice. Apparently, because the teachers were good, they were able to captivate. And, of course, studying at the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute gave me a lot. And not only the learning process itself. It seems to me that there, in the capital of the Urals, it is simply impossible not to love everything that is connected with stone. The best stonecutters, the heroes of Bazhov — all of them are from there, ’ she recalled.
Ramilya Fazleeva works with wood, stone, clay, ice, and snow, paints and creates graphic works. There are both small and large sculptures among the artist’s works. For example, her composition “Setting Free” can be seen on the central alley of Mayakovsky Park in Yekaterinburg. There is a large white turtle climbing out of a stone. And the wooden sculptures created by Fazleeva are exhibited in Arkhangelsk and Yelsk.
But mostly Ramilya Nakibovna is interested in small scale sculptures, the ideas for which are suggested to her by the shape and texture of the chosen material. The artist said:
