Only a few young artists now have in their youth thier own efficient style in most of their works of art. Darja Yankevich is among them. Her creative potential, original view and peculiarity has already attracted attention of many people in Moscow who are interested in contemporary art.
     Darja Yankevich was born in 1985 in Moscow. Her development as an artist began in Krasnopresnenskaya Artistic School. Even there her work was highly appreciated – her diploma project was included in the Catalogue of best diplomas for all 60 years of this School’s exhistence.
     All Darja’s life has been full of studies – she studied sculpture technique, history of art, graphic design... From early childhood she traveled a lot and trained her artistic skill painting the Russian nature of Siberia and the Volga region with oil. She drew fascinating places in Europe: Amsterdam, Prague and Stockholm. Owing to those trips this young artist developed an interest in the culture of different countries. Darja studied in the Institute of Asian and African Countries, where she absorbed numerous elements of unique cultures, and different moods and patterns of distant lands.
     Darja now developed her own authentic view on the situation in the world of art– this also affects her creativity. This is what she says:” I was always delighted by eclecticism - I mean the mixture of cultures and traditions, mixture of art trends. Many people think that everything has been discovered in the world of art, that there’s nothing new to find. As for me, I think that now we have much more extraordinary ways to express our views and feelings, using the experience of previous generations. Actually, now we don’t really have any limitations for the creative mind to express ourselves – that’s why it is so easy and so difficult at the same time to find our own way.
     For example, I like post-impressionists for their originality and the bright personality of each artist – you see, they were united in one rather relative trend. Many of them don’t belong to any special art school or art group. In my paintings I also like to combine effects, styles and textures (glossy, velvet, rough and crimped surface, elements of collage, sputtering, and also Indian ink, pen, classical technique). That’s why studies at the Academic Art School were of great value for me – my knowledge is like my formation, I can express everything through art which I cannot say by the means of words”.

     See Darja’s art on the Neva News Art Gallery www.opengroupart.com