Tatyana Derdey (XX-XXI) - Huge Mountains

Huge Mountains – Original Impasto Oil Painting by Tatyana Derdey

Artist: Tatyana Derdey

Title: “Huge Mountains”
Year: After 2020
Medium: Oil on canvas, hand-painted original, unique work

Dimensions: 24 × 30 cm (9.44 × 11.81 in), unframed

Signature: Signed by the artist on the reverse

Edition: Unique original work, not a print or multiple

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

Condition: Very good original condition. The paint surface is intact, with no restorations. The photos show the actual state of the work.

Shipping: Shipped on the stretcher, unframed. Carefully packed with protective layers in a rigid box.

About the painting:
Massive dark peaks streaked with brown and rust rise above a still turquoise lake, their ridges capped with fresh blue-white snow. In the foreground a golden larch and warm yellow and orange grasses glow against the cool water, while a soft yellow and grey sky closes the scene. The painting conveys the scale, silence and drama of high mountain country.

This work shows Tatyana Derdey’s confident command of impasto. Thick, sculptural strokes of paint, laid on with the palette knife, build the rock faces into angular, richly textured planes, and the raised ridges of white and pale blue paint catch the light like snow. The smooth, glassy lake is a deliberate contrast to the heavy surface of the mountains. Deep browns, charcoal and rust are set against icy turquoise and a burst of golden yellow, and this strong play of warm and cool tones gives the composition power, depth and atmosphere.

A distinctive piece for collectors of impasto art, mountain landscapes, lake scenes, palette knife painting and expressive contemporary art.

About the artist:
For Tatyana Derdey, painting is a way of preserving the beauty of nature exactly as she feels it. She works in the academic style because it allows her to stay true to the landscape: to its light, mood, harmony and quiet perfection. Her goal is not to change nature, but to capture it with sincerity and care.

In her own words: “I work in the academic manner because this is how I see and feel the landscape. I am drawn to revealing the beauty of nature as it truly exists, without altering it, because it is already perfect in its own way.” She grew up surrounded by landscape painters who worked in the academic tradition, in a place of remarkable natural beauty where she never felt the need to change anything, only to capture and convey it. She sees herself among the artists who strive to reflect nature truthfully and objectively.

Education: 2003–2008, graduated from the M.B. Grekov Odessa Art College, Painting Department, in T.I. Egorova’s workshop.

Exhibitions:

2005: Autumn exhibition “Golden Autumn in Odessa” at the Artists’ Union; student exhibition at the Artists’ Union
2006: “Grekovka” exhibition at the All-Ukrainian Bulgarian Cultural Center; winner of the “Youth Creativity – the Future of Odessa” competition
2013: “Rozhdestvenskaya” exhibition, Mykolaiv; solo exhibition “Nostalgia”, Olbia
2014: solo exhibition “Pastoral”, Mykolaiv; Union exhibition, Mykolaiv; International Plein Air, Montenegro

Her works are held in private collections in Ukraine, the USA, Germany, South Africa and China.