”ONION HOUSE IN PETERSBURG”
Painting on rice paper
In the halls of the gallery

Katya Andreeva spends the most part of the year in Crimea where she lives in a small house in which previous owners dried crops of sweet southern onion. There, in the South, Katya finds objects for her creativity; she draws inspiration from the air, from the calm and quiet worlds around receiving new forces nurturing her obvious talent of painter. Not only objects of the author’s observation appear on the canvas but also the aura which can’t be transfer to the canvas according the direct logic... May be the reason is the fact that she paints on the “living” rice paper.
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Andreeva
She was born in Moscow, on May 14, 1977; in 1999, she graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute; she learnt calligraphy by herself as well as Chinese painting and sumi-yo. Since 1997, she has been taking part in exhibitions of MOSH (Moscow Artists’ Union) and the Artistic Union of Russia, in designers’ and book exhibitions and competitions (Golden Bee in the Central House of Artists and others); she had also three big personal exhibitions. The latest of them took place in the centre of contemporary art M*ARS; it was highly evaluated by famous painters and art critics as well by common visitors.
Since 2005, she has been being a member of the Moscow Artists’ Union, section of the easel graphic.
Her favorite materials: rice paper, water colours, black and coloured Indian ink; on the second place there is gouache, acryl and tempera. Photography.
She works as illustrator for children and adult magazines. She makes books for the Moscow Publishing House “Samokat”. Now, she lives and works in Crimea.