About our artists

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Natalia Pankova
Natalia was born in Nizhniy Novgorod in 1965 year, gratuated from Art College of Nizhniy Novgorod. A member of the Russian Union of Artists.
Since 1988 year Natalia took part in exhibitions in Moscow, Spain, Luxemburg, Great Britain, Austria, Hungary, Finland and Algeria. Personal exhibitions in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Luxemburg, London, Vienna, Bydapest, Helsinki, Tampere.
In the artworks of Natalia Pankova you can see a holiday spirit embodied in impulsive movement of graphic masses, silhuette energy, and in colorative brightness. Natalia Pankova considered to be a romantic and artistic painter.
Main motifs of her paintings are exotic landscape, costumerd portrait, paintings of travelling, walking, dolled up people. Natalia involves us in bright worldm which helps to forget about worries, to remember about human freedom, pride, beauty, and dreams.
Art works of Natalia Pankova are in private collections of Margaret Thatcher, Alain Juppé, Sergey Kirilenko, Frederic Philips, Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Spivakov and others.
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Galina Kakovkina
No having professional education, Galina Kakovkina had become well-known russian artist in the result of public art exhibition in Moscow in the end of 80s. The artwork by Galina Kakovkina carried silver medal. And soon her artworks were purchased by state museum in Suzdal.
"Galina Kakovkina works in traditional school, her main genres are landscape, still-life, stilized historical portrait. Her art is related with philosophic categories of time, thing, place. The art of Galina Kakovkina combines gravity and profundity with remarkable art qualities."
Galina Kakovkina took part in different exhibition projects, such as: “Dreams about Russia”, Great Britain, North Wales, exhibition “The autumn of Nizhny in Moscow”, embassy of New Zealand; exhibition "Open City", Vienna, Austria and others.
The artworks by Galina Kakovkina are in state museums in Nizhniy Novgorod, in Chuvashia, in Museum of russian landscape, in fund "ROSIZO" by Ministery of Culture, Moscow, and in private collections in Russia and abroad.
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Vyacheslav Grachev
Vyacheslav Grachev was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1955 and in 1979 he graduated Gorky's Art College.In 1989 he graduated from the Leningrad Repin Memorial Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Institute.
He has been honoured by medals from the Russian Academy of Arts. His paintings can be found in museums, private collections and corporate collections around the world
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Sergey Ledgkov
Sergey Ledkov was born in Nizhniy Novgorod redion, Russia in 1961 year.
In 1980 year Sergey graduated from Art College of Nizhniy Novgorod, and since 1982 year he is a participant in "Flat exhibitions" of Nizhniy Novgorod' art underground community. From 1987 till 2001 years he exhibited his paintings and graphic artworks in art galleries in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Simferopol, New-York. In 2002 year he organized "Committee of art projects act ?" and carried through set of exhibitions in Nizhny Novgorod.
He has participated in such art projects as:
- 2000–2001. — "Beloved time" (Nizhny Novgorod);
- 2001–2003 — "High tension" (State museum of art, Nizhny Novgorod, Exhibition complex, Nizhny Novgorod);
- 2004 — "Crazy flowers" (Moscow), "Hudson. Volga" (Nizhny Novgorod);
- 2004–2006 — "People. Streets. Yards" (State museum of art, Nizhny Novgorod).
Nowadays the artist holds to «trans-advanc-guard» style. He determines his creative creed in such a way: "I am trying to do something new, not forgetting about old".
Artworks of Sergey Ledkov are located in private and corporative collections, for example in University Museum of state New Jersey, USA.
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