Where to get inspiration or who will help grow wings?

We are all very different, and we all see the world differently. But there is certainly something we have in common. We want to express what lives inside us, to talk about our vision of creativity and art - maybe to argue, maybe to find like-minded people and admirers.

Where to get inspiration from?

Today this question is addressed to Natalya Bocharova - a member of the TSH DPI, an artist, florist and a great lover of artistic processing of cardboard and paper. In her works - decorative houses, lamps, mirrors, Natalya uses secondary raw materials, giving him the opportunity to live another life, turning into real works of art.  

Natalya Bocharova is a long-time teacher and master of her craft, who teaches students at the Club - Studio Elena Gromova's Puppet Collection.

Traveling houses, illustrations by Anton Peek, paintings by Peter Brueghel - all are embodied in the work of Natalya and her students.

The project is of particular admiration. "Mirror City.

To build your own city and enter it through a mirror, what could be more fun! In a master class, no work is ever the same; each student creates a space for their characters or for themselves. This approach is always a winner!

In project "And in our backyard." you can touch the homes of your childhood and create a world from memories, photographs and children's films.

Answering the question where does inspiration live, Natalya says:

"... I really like to try to feel the world around us from different sides, to convey the impression of what I saw through the materials I work with ..."

“… I am amazed by creative people, communication with them. And if a person's eyes are burning and he has a favorite thing, he will always be an inexhaustible source of enthusiastic ideas and inspiration. "

"To soak up the beauty I go to the workshop of Ksenia Dmitrieva, a well-known person. Her 'Urban Patchwork Style' has long been an eye-catcher.

Talk about color, rhythm, landscape, still life, working with textiles in patchwork, try to feel the world through a suit, understand how this is done, I go to her. "

Ksenia says: "When creating textile compositions, we do not sew squares, but convey the mood, the given emotion ... And the echoes of the landscape once seen are already read in a vest or a sundress ..."

"... We do not carry stones, but build pyramids ..."

Communicating with different artists, you collect a whole book of stories of creative development and the search for inspiration. And you understand that it is everywhere: in communication with nature and interesting people, in contemplation of the lines on the wing of a butterfly and immortal masterpieces of art created by man, in the singing of morning birds and the classical chorale of the cathedral organ. Our wings grow from the sensation of the beauty of the world!

So, plunging into different areas and types of art, we develop our creative understanding and forms of self-expression!

With love and respect, Tatiana Kalinina

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