Natalia Zarovnaya

Graphic artist, painter, teacher. Wife of graphic artist Sergei Zarovny (1941–1986). Born in the family of a man called Pavel in Tomsk (1946). Studied graphic art at Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute (1962–67). Taught drawing, painting and composition at Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute (1968–72). Moved to Moscow (1976). Worked in the studio of etching at the Senezh House of Creativity of the Union of Artists in the town of Solnechnogorsk in Moscow Region as a master printer (from 1976) and manager (from 1990). Member of the Union of Artists (1983). Took up non-objective graphic art (mid-1980s). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1967), including Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02) and one-woman shows in Moscow (1980, 1984, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003), Kaliningrad (1999), Ormond Beach (2001) and Tallinn (2002).