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Natasha Touchinski

Natasha Touchinski is a ceramics artist with strong focus on drawing, painting, and sculpture. In her art career she made pottery sets, vases, medals, murals, tiles, fountains. 

  Natasha holds a M.F.A. from Moscow State Institute for Industrial Art (former Stroganoff), Department of Art Ceramics and Glass with focus on painting, ceramics and interior design.

  She was born in Russia in the middle of 1960’s, but spent her young years in France. She got her artistic background in the Europe but finally was graduated from the most historically and professionally famous Russian art school. She immigrated to Canada in 1999 and now lives and works in the Rocky Mountains foothills in Bragg Creek area, Alberta. She started her company The Pottery Cupboard  in 2003.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

  Clay is my favorite medium because it has all of the intensity and rich vibrancy that painting has; all of the black and white contrast of graphics; all the texture diversity that tapestry has and also it is like sculpture with it’s 3-dimensional shape. It is a combination of clay and color that form the content of my art.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

International Council of Monuments and Sites, ICOMOS

Alberta Craft Council

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS

2003-present  Alberta Corporate & Gift Art Gallery, Rowles and Company, Calgary and Edmonton  

2004 & 2003   Alberta Gift Show, Edmonton (Honorably mention Best New Exhibitor)  

2003-2004      Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge

1999-2004      Full Moon Gallery, Bragg Creek

2002               Festive Platters, Full Moon Gallery, Bragg Creek, Alberta

2002               Professional Artists Group Show, Full Moon Gallery, Bragg Creek, Alberta

2002               Bragg Creek Artisans Group Show, Bragg Creek

1999-2001      North Mount Pleasant Art Center, Pottery Group Shows, Calgary

1996-1998      Annual Art Exhibitions ‘Russia Young Artists’, Moscow, Russia

COLLECTIONS & SPECIAL PROJECTS

Private collections in Russia, France, Germany, Canada (AB, ON, BC)

Health Centre (ceramic floor vases), Moscow Russia

Hotels lobby (ceramic floor vases), Moscow, Russia

Sakura Studio (ceramic vases for flowers composition), Moscow, Russia

Society for commercial Decoration Gissen, Moscow Circus, Russia.