Stoupina Nina – Chair

Nina was Born in Serpuhov, Russia, in 1955. She enrolled at the Art Institute in Moscow in 1975 to study textile design and she graduated in 1980. For twelve years Nina worked as a designer in the largest Moscow carpet company. She gained painterly experience on numerous study visits to Malasia, India, North America, Caucasus and Central Asia. She started experimenting with painting on textiles and paper as early as 1980s, preferring to work in large formats. In 1987 she joined the International Association of Designers and in 1989 the Association of USSR Painters. She has been living in Belgium since 1992, where she has worked as a designer of carpets for a famous company Domo Sint-Niklass. Today she is My dedicated to painting exhibiting her works in her own atelier in the heart of Gent, where she lives. Nina has participated in noted exhibitions in Belgium and abroad, in the Netherlands, Italy, USA, Latvia and France. Surfaces of white paper or canvas represent for her areas of immense inspiration on which to create imaginative spaces, achieving harmony by means of shapes, juxtaposition of planes, transparency or thickness of the paint, thus building a proportioned whole through the play of oppositions. A painting is for her live matter that absorbs energies and emanates them to the viewer. Her painting is a field of dynamic forces that revive contours and colours, it is an equilibrium of self-questioning and the world that surrounds her, in a dynamic composition of the painterly. It is the product of a personal view of life created through long-term inspiration by cultures and people she encountered on her way.