Julia Vedrina was born in 1985 in USSR. Her talent for drawing did not take long to manifest itself, since childhood she loved painting and drawing; having completed her studies, she decided to dedicate herself completely to art. At the age of 21 she moved to a big city and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where she discovered the "Peredvizhniki" also called "The Wanderers" or "The Itinerants", were a group of Realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870, a 19th century the Artistic Movement that advocated painting in nature and celebrated the endless Slavic plains, forests, fields, meadows. Influenced by famous exponents of this school (such as Levitan, Shishkin, Savrasov), from that moment Vedrina tried to recreate nature in all its splendor and interpret its diversity.


Before starting a new canvas, she immerses himself in nature with a sketchbook, draws the landscape and connects it to the mood, the theme, the story to tell. As a true artist she constantly perfects her study with oil colors on cardboard. Then, in her studio, she extracts the essence of the sketches and translates them into the final work of art. Her paintings are realistic, however, at the same time, she believes in Picasso's thought: "Everything that can be imagined is real." This definition of reality allows her to interpret the landscape with great artistic freedom, especially in the choice of a color palette.


When not painting, Julia spends her time enriching her creativity. She reads Zola's Masterpiece, Irving Stone's Lust for Life (based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh), Balzac's The Unknown Masterpiece, or visits the Louvre, whose countless paintings constantly feed her imagination. Julia wants to reveal to the viewer those small pieces of preserved nature that her gaze falls on. Each of her paintings awakens our senses and transports us to the peaceful atmosphere of a winter morning or summer evening. She especially enjoys painting sunrises and suns to capture paleness or shimmering light. She meticulously works with the sky and clouds, which for her are symbols of life and freedom. "Their moods perfectly convey the feelings and emotions of the soul." she says.

Julia Vedrina
The Vedrina Foundation
Founder & Artist