Tatiana Sukhanova’s obsession with art awakened in her childhood years. Classes in secondary art school ignited a fire, which she fed by spending hours in the library studying art history, theory, and technique. Before moving to America in 1999, Tatiana acquired a degree in fashion design and a master's degree in fine art in Kazakhstan. Tatiana worked for many years in the fashion industry and designed her own clothing and jewelry line. Currently based in Columbia, South Carolina, she participates in the local artist community by teaching art classes, including art therapy for children and adults. Tatiana’s pieces are exhibited in a number of galleries and private collections throughout the United States. An accomplished painter, Tatiana’s preferred medium is oil and watercolor. Her technique intends to transport the viewer to a place between realism and dreamscape, capturing a mesmerizing moment of solitude and silence. The use of negative space is meant to be interpreted as a state of mind, from pondering nostalgia to being present. Her mission is for the patron to be illusively lured through a wide range of emotions into the fleeting world of escapism.