Nature's Still Life

from November/December 2021

Naturally Surrealistic

Nature’s Still Life

Tatjana Cechun is an oil painter from Lithuania who has been painting and drawing for 30 years. She’s been surrounded by art since her childhood. “My parents were artists. My husband, with whom we have been friends since childhood, is an artist. Therefore, the creative atmosphere in fills my whole life.”

Tatjana studied journalism in school but says she never worked in the field. Instead, she chose to pursue an art career. She is a still life painter with subjects that range from flowers to animals, sunsets and landscapes. “I was inspired to create the latest series of still lifes by the works of Flemish Mas-

ters - Peter Klas, Jan Vermeer, Jacob de Gein. “I wanted to combine the technique of the old masters with a modern understanding and twist.”

Tatjana is inspired by nature and tries to understand it to then reproduce it on canvas. “And of course, I fantasize a lot. Much of what I depict in my works simply does not exist. I don’t have to look at a bouquet to draw it, invent it, imagine it. I hope that someday I will be able to create something very good.”

To see more of Tatjana’s work go to facebook.com/artchechun.

ArtDiction | 16 | November/December 2021

Tatjana Cechun