Tatiana Myers (Kravchenko) born in Russia in 1967.
Her family gave her love to books and arts... Her Grandfather Boris Kravchenko, was a very talented self taught painter and poet, had two university degrees, spoke fluently 4 languages and had thousands of books, what family was considering as their biggest treasure.
Tatiana's mother, Olga, was very good amateur artist herself, and gave to her daughter great start with her art education.
From her early childhood Tatiana was in love with beauty of big world surrounding her and tried to reflect it in her paintings, sculpture and poetry. Her art exhibitions started at the age of 12 with her equine sculptures. About the same time she fall in love with book illustrations and discovered for herself a joy of work with egg tempera.
At 1984 she went to Moscow's regional University to study biology, chemistry and esthetics. During her college years she did a lot of botanical illustrations, worked on animals portraits and started in landscapes.
She also published some of her poems.
1995- 1998 Tatiana spent in Crimea, Feodosia - her favorite spot on Black Sea and had an opportunity to learn on example of some best Marine painters of Russia and Ukraine holding their regular outdoors art shows nearby famous gallery of Ajvazovskij.
From beginning of 1999 Tatiana lives in United States, Pennsylvania together with her husband, James Myers. They both enjoy outdoors, what fits together with her old love to animals, arts, books and photography.
Her art works could be found in private collections in United States, Europe and Australia.
Tatiana's favorite types of media are: egg tempera, pastels (soft and oil), ink and modern sculpturing compounds.
Her favorite subjects: landscape, animals portraiture, illustrative paintings and miniatures.
Tatiana is a member of Oil Pastel Society, Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society and Society of Tempera Painters and several local Art Associations.
