About the Artist
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Original Oil Paintings can be viewed at Aristocrat Gallery
849 4th Ave., San Diego, CA 92101
(call for an appointment)
Phone: 619-797-MUSE
Tatyana Chechuga was born in Kiev, Ukraine, immigrated to the USA in 1995, forced to leave her family while in her teens to recover from a deadly illness and escape the radioactive contamination related to the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl. While alone in a foreign country, inspired and driven, she explored and refined her artistic talent by learning and combining the skills and techniques of various masters of the past and present. She was deeply influenced by her great uncle, brilliant painter and her first art teacher Nikolay Boychenko, who started exploring art as a young boy in the 1930’s when Ukraine was suffering through starvation imposed by Stalin’s regime. Extreme poverty conditions did not stop him from painting - the materials he used were old newspapers as canvases and flowers as paints. Later as a soldier in the Red Army fighting for freedom while crossing the countries on foot he would carry a little art box and paint scenes of nature during World War II. Tatyana brought that same art box with her to the US as a reminder of the unbreakable dedication to art…
Now, a successful young artist, creative director, dancer, actress, performer, writer and a spiritual leader she powerfully reaches out with a message of living passionately, finding beauty in every moment, stirring up emotion and tantalizing imagination. While as a painter Tatyana is usually eclectic in her subject matter, she finds a match for her passion in Argentine Tango and chooses to focus on it for a while.
