Olga Kataeva-Rochford is a professional painter, graphic artist and an art teacher, member of the Taylor Foundation (Paris), Art Critics Association (AIS). She is PhD graduated in cinema and audiovisual arts (2018).
Born in 1986 in Leningrad (USSR), she spent her childhood in Russia, a country swept at the time by the fresh wind of the Perestroika, when new ideas and new hopes were not lacking.
She followed her professional training in art in Saint Petersburg where the Russian Museum, the Hermitage and the Academy of Fine Arts made her discover the work of the masters. This training was completed by theoretical research on the drawing medium as part of a doctorate in Paris, the city where she currently lives, at the crossroads of cultures.
Olga works mainly in tempera, this technique used since the Middle Ages for painting frescoes and icons. Its natural pigments and the harmonious softness of its colors are propitious to the creation of universal images, which make you dream and open to the eye beyond the visible. Ink and watercolor allow her to work on the expressiveness of the gesture. Finally, charcoal and sepia offer her endless possibilities for exploring the depth of tones.
Olga participated in more than 60 group exhibitions in Russia and Europe and held 6 personal exhibitions in Paris. Her artworks are part of public collections: the House of Graphic Arts Dmitriï Rovinskï (Moscow, Russia), the Museum of Fine Arts (Ekaterinburg, Russia); and private collections (Russia, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Austria, United States, China).
