Alevtina Pugina - landscape painter

Participant in dozens of fine art exhibitions. She paints surprisingly realistic landscapes on order around the world. Her paintings are in private collections and are especially popular abroad, in Japan and China.

Alevtina Pugina paints mainly landscapes, because it is they that are most in demand in Asian countries, where she sells her works, as well as in the salon of Primorsky Krai, where there are admirers of her work who acquire her paintings in their private collections. At each exhibition, a queue of buyers is built behind her paintings. She knows how to convey the mood of nature, knows how to depict snow or rain, frost or drops on the glass, that the viewer fades with admiration and begins to look: is this really a painting?

Realism

"My style in art is realism. I paint landscapes in oil on canvas.
For a more subtle transmission of my feelings, I paint with a thin brush. At first I make several large swabs and make through them with a brush".

Alevtina Pugina's landscapes can be looked at indefinitely. But the look is attracted not by plots or angles, but by the almost photographic clarity of the images.

Realistic landscapes of the artist

The artist from Russia Alevtina Pugina has always painted as long as she remembers herself. The creativity of a landscape painter began in early childhood, years from 5. School time contributed to the creation of a series of wonderful graphic portraits of classmates, which was her first steps in the art world. In the 90s, she began to professionally engage in art, painted oil on canvas. Drawing is Alevtina Pugina's favorite occupation throughout her life.

Custom-made landscapes

The artist paints to order realistic landscapes with a photograph of the Customer. In addition to the photograph from the Client's words, Alevtina Pugina takes into account the features of that day and reflects them with oil on canvas, as if she herself was present in that day: the coolness of the autumn evening, the whisper of early morning or the aroma of freshly cut hay is clearly felt.

Alevtina Pugina has never been specially studied painting anywhere. And all that she has achieved today is only thanks to her talent, work and constant self-education. Although she had teachers - the great Russian artists Shishkin I.I. and Levitan I.I. Alevtina Pugina imitated them, trying to portray the world as they did. But modern celebrities can teach a lot. Today she calls as her idols Shilov A.M. and Safronov N.S.

A.M. Shilov

"I am very close in spirit to the Moscow portrait painter Alexander Shilov, according to whose paintings I learned painting as a science".

Native seaside nature, beautiful landscapes inspire the artist. The individual manner of painting distinguishes her from many masters of art. Still lifes by Alevtina Pugina are also wonderful, the paintings are obtained as living.

Inspiration from nature itself

Alevtina Pugina's husband, Nikolai, is also a creative person, a woodcarver, and he has collected many works worthy of exposition (masks, wooden caskets, wood figurines, etc.) It is he who supports his famous wife throughout her life and helps her design her paintings in beautiful, handmade baguettes.

A lifelong creative duet.