Natalia Gukova Mixed Media Art

I am glad to welcome you to my store. I am Natasha Zhukova, an artist working in mixed media and encaustics, an expert decorator and teacher.

Since childhood, I loved fairy tales and interesting stories, I could listen to them for hours, imagining places, heroes and experiencing their feelings. The most beautiful feeling is love, and art is wonderful because it can fill our hearts with joy, admiration and love. Therefore, I want to create works that convey these feelings and tell amazing and mysterious stories.

I love to travel and collect inspiration from nature, architecture, I am captivated by the texture of old walls, corrosion and ceramics. In my work, I combine a variety of textures and collage, so I work in mixed media, using various embossed materials.

Most often in my work I use all kinds of pastes, acrylics, gold leaf, various types of paper, wax medium, although I still love to try new materials and look for new combinations.

My works are stories about feelings, thoughts, dreams or memories. I am very glad when buyers find their favorite stories among them)))

My craving for mixed media was manifested even during my studies at the Faculty of Art and Graphics at the Moscow Pedagogical University.

- Since 2007, the history of studying modern decorative materials and techniques - decoupage, furniture and interior decor - began. When the baggage in materials and techniques reached its maximum, I finally realized that my path is freedom of creativity and mixed techniques.

- Since 2010, I have been teaching decorative and mixed techniques at courses and mk in Moscow

- Author of more than 20 professional training videos of master classes and courses

- Since 2014 speaker of online conferences on mix media and decor: International
Decoupage University, Scrap-Intensive, Mixed Media & Décor online festival, etc.

- Conducted over 50 online master classes and webinars with an audience of 30 to 3000 participants

- Participated with master classes in TV programs: "Fazenda", "Rack of gifts", "Living room", "Life of old things"

- Author of the book “We Simulate Surfaces. The most complete encyclopedia of decorative materials and techniques ", AST-Press, 2014, 2016

- In 2013, in a creative alliance with decorator Alla Mavrina, she created the Wings of Art Creative Association and a decor studio in Moscow

Ideological inspirer, co-organizer and participant of the 1st MIXED MEDIA & DECOR Festival, Moscow 2018
- Winner of Russian Art Week, Moscow 2019 - spring

- In 2019, she opened her own creative studio in Moscow: Natalia Zhukova's ART studio

- Member of the Union of Pedagogical Artists since 2016

- Participant of an international internship in Rome, which includes art history practice, an open-air program and master classes, autumn 2019
Kinds of creativity: Decoration, Painting