artist bio

​Tatyana Grechina is an established painter, writer, and creative entrepreneur. She fell in love with oil paint at age nine and has garnered a strong reputation for creating figurative, animal, landscape, and abstract works using a variety of media and concepts. These range from collaborative large-scale murals and commissioned portraits to photoshoots and collages.

Her artwork can be seen in public and private collections and has been exhibited internationally, with pieces held in numerous cities, including New York City, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Vienna, Austria; and Greenville, SC. She received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. Tatyana is currently based in Longmont, Colorado.

inspiration

Through vibrant palettes, dynamic forms and expressive mark-making, my paintings and portraits delve into nostalgia, emotion, and self-reflection, challenging the boundary between private identity and public persona. Seeing the world as a stage and every being a character, I become the scribe, capturing the unfolding narrative that surrounds us. My method of using shapes and colors to build up imagery mirrors the way memories accumulate and recede, sometimes sharp with clarity, sometimes dissolving into abstraction.

With roots in storytelling as both an artist and a writer, my aim is not to elevate my subjects above others. Instead, I portray them as threads in our living history through kinesthetic, immersive work. My large-scale paintings and murals become spaces for complete immersion and shared energy. By mixing movement, energy, and paint, I create visual portals for connection, inviting the outside world in. Capturing my subjects in paint feels like the ultimate act of devotion, somehow acknowledging the universal longing to be seen and understood.

materials + process

Working with both external spaces and internal worlds, Tatyana explores place and emotion through her figural and landscape works. This takes form in oil on canvas paintings, pen-and-ink drawings and hand-cut collages.

As Tatyana’s work explores shared themes from our human experience, collaboration has also become a large part of her pratice. She frequently works with fellow creatives like photographers, stylists and models to bring to life scenes which she turns into hand-cut collages and paintings.

Tatyana dreams of building a world that can not only sustain itself and future generations with regenerative creativity, but brings as many people as it can into the process!