Valeria Butyrina (Yasinskaya)
"YEARN FOR SCYTHIA"
In the gallery halls

"I’m from the Crimea.  In 1993, following my mom’s dearest wish, I became a doctor after graduating from Leningrad Public Health Institute.  But everywhere I could I opened my box of paints, and immediately my heart filled with ecstasy, my soul started its magic flutter, and the mystery started… How sweet are these moments up till now. My wise mom always praised my drawings. Once our pharmacologist told me: “You chose a wrong institute” (I draw his portrait on the board). I felt sad for a while, but continued to study, graduated from institute, started to work. Life in the country wasn’t easy that time. My life wasn’t easy either. I continued to draw. My husband actively supported me in that, introduced me to creative people, many of them were his friends (foe instance, this is how I got to know Boris Kudryakov, who treated my works very warmly and struck me by being a terribly interesting, lonely and satisfied person). And this is how all my works appeared during several years. And finally I came to Borey, to Tatiana Ponomarenko and realized that found my Soulmates”.