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Natalia Povalyaeva
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I was born in 1971 in Minsk, the capital of BELARUS. I began
to paint and to draw at about 2 years old, and my pictures and drawings show that some of my characters have changed
very little since.
In 1985-1986 I attended an Art Studio under a well-known Belorussian artist Vasily
Sumarev. In 1987-1988 as an addition course to my school program I studied sculpture and the history of Art.
In 1988 I finished school and entered the Belorussian State University at philological
department. I have always thought that literature and Fine Art are closely connected (and
history of culture has many proofs for it). And I have chosen this synthesis of literature and Fine Arts as the
topic of my diploma paper. (It was called "Oscar Wilde and Fine Arts of his time").
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In 1993 I graduated from University and became a postgraduate student in speciality "social
philosophy". Now
I'm a teacher of foreign literature at the department of
foreign literatures at Belorussian State University. I specialyze in English
literature, and now I'm working at my
dissertation dedicated to the novels of Virginia Woolf.
And of course all this time I have been drawing.
Fore the last ten years more than 500 of my works have been sold in USA,
France, Germany, Norway, Finland, Italy, etc.
In 1995 I took part in WHITE ART FESTIVAL which took place from 16th to 19th of february in the Palace of Arts in
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