A visual artist for 20 years, Tatiana Iliina-Gooden's work is increasingly focused on drawing attention to the health of the planet.
Abstract paintings, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers, figures, a variety of Tatiana's creative work is always available.
A career beginning deep in Russia's artistic
roots, developing in the Soviet Union's premier
schools, traversing the human, political
and emotional by ways of poignant and turbulent
times, now flourishing amidst the creative
energy of Montreal...
Tatiana at the Mukhina Higher Art Institute, near The Hermitage Art Museum
in St. Petersburg, one of Tatiana's paintings
Creator of one of Canada's most viewed pieces
of art
This enormous, 5,000 sq. ft. mural painted
by Tatiana in 1997-98 is located on
high-rent Sherbrooke St. in central downtown
Montreal and has been seen by
thousands of people every day
since 1997.
TATIANA Iliina-Gooden
20+ Years a Professional Artist in Canada and
Russia
Studied art in St. Petersburg, in one of
Russia's most respected and prestigious faculties
Tatiana Iliina-Gooden is fortunate to be
blessed with at least three qualities of
great artists:
Tatiana's gift of natural artistic talent
verges on supernatural!
Tatiana has 9+ years of specialized art education, (mostly in walking distance from the Hermitage
and the Russian Museum), in some of Russia's
finest schools, studying under masters of
their specialties.
Tatiana's passion for and love of art are rivalled only by her passion for her
career and love for her family.
Art dealers agree that one of the keys to
successful art collecting and investing is
to select artists who follow through with
their careers. In the case of Tatiana Iliina-Gooden,
you have a person who has not strayed from
her art career since she started working,
back in the U.S.S.R. during the Perestroika period.
Tatiana Exhibiting at Montreal City Hall
Tatiana (left) with Montreal Mayor Gerald
Tremblay and Vandart Gallery owner,
Violetta Safarova, beside Tatiana's
art,
at a 2005 exhibition at Montreal
City Hall.
Some of the Milestones in Tatiana's
Career:
- Received certificate to teach art and drafting
- Gained admittance to the prestigious Monumental
Art Faculty of the Mukhina
Higher Institue of Art and Design. Only eight
people out of hundreds of applicants,
from all over the Soviet Union, were accepted
each year.
- Completion of four-year program
plus thesis
year at Mukhina
- Numerous monumental projects of all sizes,
mostly in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad,
on the Baltic coast, and Pyatigorsk,
the
major Russian center of the Caucuses.
- Immigrated to Montreal, Canada
- Completetion of dozens of monumental
projects
in Montreal and elsewhere in
Canada
- Participation in numerous exhibitions,
both group and solo in Russia
and Canada,
from 1985 through 2005
- Hundreds of commissions, involving canvases,
portraits, murals, trompe l'oeils
The Woman with Russian and Canadian ice in
her veins and Passion for Art ablaze in her
heart!
When power and heat were knocked out by a
devastating ice storm in Montreal one January, Tatiana, staying
with her family at some friends' house, still
completed several canvases to fill a commission
for a customer.
By the side of her infant son, who was recovering
from heart surgery at the Montreal Childrens
Hospital, Tatiana signed and numbered hundreds
of prints of her work for a corporate commission.
While painting a mural on a 12-storey building,
she rode out many a windstorm on
the swingstage
scaffolding, while the men who were
painting
the rest of the building scrambled
for cover
in the coffee shop (uh - could it
be they
were getting paid by the hour?).
Dedicated to sharing her art and abilities
with the community, Tatiana completed six
projects in four different schools last year
alone, exposing to and engaging hundreds
of students in the creative process.
A few years ago, Tatiana conceived and established
a mosaic workshop in a special needs school,
and trained the staff and students in all
aspects of mosaic production, to the extent
that the workshop has plans to operate semi-independently.
Is It Real or Is It Art-in-the-Making...?
When not working on her canvases, Tatiana
still accepts commissions and
paints some exquisite trompe
l'oeils and
murals.
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