Personal exhibition of artist Anna Davydchenko

An anniversary exhibition of paintings by the Feodosian artist Anna Vladimirovna Davydchenko has opened in the Republican House of Artists. Since ancient times, Aivazovsky has been famous for its cultural traditions, and the art gallery named after the world-famous marine painter, which stores and exhibits not only his paintings, but also the works of Bogaevsky, Voloshin,

Latry, Lagorio, Fessler, Barsamov and other Cimmerian artists invariably attracted more and more adepts of Crimean fine art.

Among them is the author of our exhibition. She was born in 1967 in Volgograd, in the family of a direct descendant of Count Irakli Morkov, the head of the noble militia in the Patriotic War of 1812, whose serf artist was the famous Russian and Ukrainian artist Vasily Tropinin. It is interesting that our Crimean famous masters such as Honored Artist of Ukraine Nikolay Bortnikov and Tatyana Kuznetsova, who went through the Great Patriotic War and reflected it in their work, belong to her family.

Anna’s attraction to drawing was manifested in childhood. After graduating from the Children’s Art School in Volgograd, she entered the Crimean Art College named after N. S. Samokish. It was then that the family decided to move to Feodosia in order to be closer to their daughter and the sea - the sea attracted a long time, and the city itself and the whole Crimea, with its amazing nature, became fate for Ani.

After graduating from college, where her teacher was Honored Artist of the ARC Veronika Shevchuk, Anna worked for several years as a restoration artist in the Art Gallery named after I.K. Aivazovsky, which was also a good continuation of the acquisition of artistic skills. Since 1994, she was actively involved in the organization of the Children’s Art School. M.A. Voloshina, in which she began to teach painting and composition, while studying at the Crimean Humanities University.

Anna Vladimirovna has been engaged in creative activities since 2005, constantly participating in city, regional, republican, all-Union and international exhibitions and open airs. Since 2010, she has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, and since 2014, the All-Russian Creative Public Organization “Union of Artists of Russia”. In 2013, she became a finalist of the International Art Exhibition "Tears of Happiness" in England, in Oxford, where her work "I am also a Cat" was in the top ten of the two hundred accepted for consideration works. In 2016, her personal exhibitions of graphic and pictorial works were successfully held in Feodosia in the museums of Aivazovsky and Green.

The first solo exhibition in Simferopol, in the Republican House of Artists, is a serious test for any artist: this is a festive event, and a creative report to fellow artists, and, of course, to the audience. The 55 works that made up the anniversary exposition show the artist’s best works, written mainly in recent years, when she switched from watercolor to oil painting, in which she often seeks to preserve a light, light and “flowing” watercolor style of writing.

The theme of its landscapes is mainly Crimean and central Russia - the sea, boats and moorings with sun flare, temples and wooden huts of the north. A significant place in her work is still life, a genre in which the masters of Crimean art have developed their traditions, plots and techniques that the artist seeks to continue and develop her recognizable face: she “writes” her compositions with flowers and fruits into the open air environment of the east coast.

There is an unfinished self-portrait of the artist at the exhibition - portraits are her dream, which she plans to realize gradually approaching this complex genre. The exhibition shows the great potential and dedication of the artist to her work. Anna Davydchenko is just entering a time of maturity and she has many exhibitions and paintings ahead, in which she will create her vision of Crimean nature and her people.

It remains only to sincerely congratulate her on her anniversary date and exhibition, to wish her good health and creative inspiration for the realization of her dream in the Crimean fine art.

Lyudmila Borodina, art critic, Member of the Union of Artists of Russia