About Great , Positive New Renaissance Master - Tatyana Palchuk

ALWAYS AGAINST STREAM

Artist, Grand Master of the New Renaissance Tatyana Palchuk paints world-renowned works

Peter Rikans Collector, Promoter

From the TV show Human Stories

Dace Kokle (LatvianTV Broadcasting director)

As a child, the painter Tatjana Pal?uka-Rikāne, who lives in Iecava, dreamed of simply becoming a janitor or a kiosk seller. But it turned out that she studied art with the art greats - Konrad Ubans, Peter Postass and academician Eduard Kalnins.

Tatyana Palchuk is a Magician. Good, of course. Her works entice, attract, enchant and make the frustrated smile. And most importantly, after meeting Tatyana's art of light and sun, you can no longer no think. Maybe that's her biggest spell - to make you think.

About the order of things, the mission of art and eternal going upstream.

-Up-Tatyana Palchuk while painting.

-Down - grandchildren in life and in a double portrait.

Photo: Dace Kokle / Peter Rikāns

Dare to start over

"I started late with my Peter (Tatiana's husband, art agent, Collector Peter Rikans - ed.). Start, to the foreign Art Markets. And we started it in serious maturity though. And I started by participating in international competitions , what more artists don't like , because they think they are something big at once. But I looked at it calmly - no one, abroad, knew me and no one owed me anything. Right? " Standing in a wonderful, sunny workshop between fabulous works, the artist Tatyana Palchuk begins her story unusually modestly and without the slightest hint of arrogance.

Tatyana Palchuk and her works.

Photo: Dace Kokle

When the first recognition came, the first victories in competitions, and the first positive feedback from foreign critics, Tatiana felt completely embarrassed: “I received first international award, it was so strange. I tell my husband, Peter, there is a whole world, so many good artists, and suddenly they saw me. But I have always been extraordinary, a walker of my own path. It's always hard when you're very different from others, it's easier in a herd, shoulder to shoulder - what kind of great we are, but here, one goes upstream ... It's not easy, and suddenly ,they find someone interesting,something else here! ”

The aforementioned spouse Peter cannot fail to intervene: “I have always been convinced that Tanya is an excellent and intellectual artist. Well, now she also sometimes believes in it ... ”

Tatyana Palchuk, the picturesque interior of the studio and house.

Photo: Dace Kokle

Little bit laughing, Tatyana shows a "plaque of honor" - a whole wall in the workshop dedicated to diplomas and articles of honor for various international achievements: "It's all Peter's merit, I'm just sitting here and painting in my room - all the heaviness is on his shoulders."

I naturally ask whether the favor of critics and positive feedback are important for the artist herself. "It used to be important," Tatyana says a little bitterly after a short pause. "Then I was younger and of course I expected someone to appreciate me at Homeland. I waited so long, but Latvian art critics did not write about me. Because here it was and is a very closed group, which was formed during the Soviet occupation. And when art scientist Ingrīda Burāne finally wrote about me and for the first time in Latvia, I organized an exhibition at the State Museum (not a private Gallery) in Cēsis.. Listen, I think I will die! Real. That was very, very important. "

Tatyana Palchuk, the picturesque interior of the house.

Photo: Dace Kokle

The driver and pusher of the idea of go to the world is, of course, Tatiana's husband, art agent, collector and guardian angel Peter Rican in one person. He had noticed Tatyana's works in the past and had fallen in love with some paintings and bought them. But fate liked to bring the two together together after the first not-so-happy marriages and create a strong union, not only in life but also in art. And Peter has fulfilled some more quiet and seemingly unattainable expectations of Tatiana - she has her dream workshop, all that remains is to create!

Downstream - never!

Tatyana has been a bit of a persistent her way pedestrian , since she was a child. Asked about her childhood dreams, she surprises, admitting that she was wanted to become everything, but not an artist, because she came from a very ordinary, very poor, family. Then little Tanya had two dream professions - either as a janitor (necessarily with a snow shovel with a metal rim at the bottom) or as a newspaper vendor (who kept the coins in a black small plastic coin box). I wonder where the idea of painting suddenly came from, and, without telling anyone at home, Tatjana herself passed the documents and entered the prestigious "Rosenthal" or Janis Rozentāls Riga Art High School. Just I asked my mom to buy me watercolor paints. Further, the path was fatally decided - the Latvian Academy of Arts.

Tatyana Palchuk's workshop.

Photo: Dace Kokle

"Without a good teacher, you will never finally have sucess, you will not succeed," Tatyana is convinced. She has meet a big lot in his life - think for yourself: to get to the teachers' workshops of Imants Vecozols, Konrad Ubans, Pēteris Posta?s, Edgars Iltners and, most importantly, Academician Eduard Kalnins.

"If there is happiness at all, then to meet such people, and they all helped me. What did they see in me? There was nothing to see. But they still saw, because Academician Eduards Kalnins himself, at that moment no longer accepted students, but took me. Me - a poor girl ! Can you imagine? ” the artist 's thoughts swirl in her characteristic veil of doubt and delight.

She is infinitely grateful to the great educators for the craft, the deep understanding of art, and the smart advices that Tatyana has embedded in her vision of life:And now I do the same for my students .

” But the most important contribution of teachers is to teach to think: "This is the most important thing - teach to think, not to draw, because you can teach anyone to draw, believe me, but to think… ..."

Works by Tatyana Palchuk.

Photo: Dace Kokle

And another piece of advice given by Professor Iltner has become a part of the artist's daily life - to write down ideas.Sometimes so many thoughts come to mind that you can't sketch, and how easily they come in, just as easily they are gone out. Iltners has said: “Tanya, articles, articles - at least in letters, the points of the plan - the first, the second ...I do the same. For example, I was dreamed a series about young musicians ( like a , Playing Angels, in ancient frescoes) in Assisi, and I said - “Peter, take and write, and dictate to him. I still have that small leaf saved. ”

Renaissance rebirth

I want to smile while watching Tatiana's work. They can be read as a book - both open and closed - depending on the viewer's own preparation, the previously accumulated body of knowledge or perhaps the desire to think. Each painting hides so many signs, symbols, interplay of images, subtext.

Tatyana Palchuk painting process. Photo: Dace Kokle

The artist's great love is the Northern Renaissance, but she always emphasizes newerending continuity - you do not live and not paint in the 19th or another historic century, but do it today, in a modern way, in accordance with the people of this time. It is the same with everything in this life, says Tatiana: “We think we are something new. No, we are all connected to the past, and there is nothing new - we are just reinterpreting. And the main thing is to know that you are not the first, that it didn't start from you - in art and life in general. ”

"I like to travel so much," Tanya becomes a little dreamy. "But when we return, it's so good to be home again. And let there be a gray sky, and let a little sift the rain, and you feel it on your face - it's wonderfull !!!!

Peteris Rikans