Natalia Chernogolova

Natalia Chernogolova is a Belarusian artist.

Biography Chernogolova was born on 15 May 1954 in Zhitkovichi, Gomel Region, USSR (now Belarus ). She graduated from the Minsk School of Art in 1976 and went on to study in the Art and Drawing Department of the Pedagogical Institute in Vitebsk, graduating in 1982. In 1989 she was elected to the USSR Union of Artists, undertaking various official commissions.

Natalia paints without preliminary sketches or drawings. "Painting is her life. She finds it impossible not to paint. She works with passion and vitality, and her love of life is evident in her work. Natalia has developed a way of painting using only her fingers. This, underpinned by her long classical training, enables her to capture the vigour and spirit that she sees in the subjects she has chosen."

She first visited the United Kingdom in 2005 when she created many vivid oil paintings of street scenes in Congleton and Cheshire landscapes. Her neo-expressionist paintings appear in collections and galleries in the US, UK, Germany, Belarus, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Canada and Israel. She lives in Brest, Belarus.

Exhibitions 1976—1988 — Brest, Minsk — Belarus 1988 — Gurzufa — Crimea 1989 — Minsk, Brest — Belarus 1990 — Minsk, Grodno — Belarus 1991 — Nałęczów — Poland 1992 — Nałęczów, Katowice, Puławy, Gołąb — Poland; Brest - Belarus; Ostrowiec, Biała — Poland 1993 — Zakopane, Krynica, Nałęczów — Poland 1994 — Nałęczów — Poland; Brest — Belarus 1995 — Brest — Belarus 1996 — Zakopane — Poland 1997 — Brest, Minsk — Belarus 1998 — Brest, Minsk — Belarus 1999 — Siedlce — Poland 2000 — Puławy — Poland 2001 — Biała — Poland 2002 — Puławy — Poland 2005 — Brest — Belarus 2005 — Galeria Andre (www.galeriaandre.com) — Warsaw and worldwide 2006 — Manchester Central Library, UK: Colours of Love, 25 July-29 September 2009 — National Gallery Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus 2009 — Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, UK, 19–21 June 2010 — Todmorden Fine Art, Todmorden, Lancashire, UK, March 2014 — Belarusian Palace of Art, Minsk