Elena is an artist based in Chattanooga, TN USA.Elena always wanted to be an artist. As a child in Ukraine, she received a classicalart education which she used for over a decade as an architect. It was an applied form of her desire to create art. Elena moved away from architectureinto teaching art to children and painting when she could, and finally she wasable to focus all her time being an artist and learning. She tries to use every opportunity to learnanything new – new tools, mediums, techniques – anything new at all. She moved to America in 2013 and turned her full attention to painting.Elena’s favorite subjects to paint are people with theirpersonalities, moods, thoughts, and favorite things. “I really like to explorethe personalities of my models through building the structure of portraiturewith oil paint and paintbrush.”Her current focus is portraiture. She seeks a connectionwith the model that she can translate to the surface.