About the author
Natalia Bagley (Protchenko)
Landscape artist.
Born in 1987 in Moscow.
Main materials she works with: dry pastel, ink, watercolor, glass.
Education
In 2009, she graduated with first-class honors degree from the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Moscow Pedagogical State University.
In 2017-2021, she continued her studies at the academic drawing and painting courses at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Art and Industry (Stroganov Academy).
Since 2021, she is a master’s student at the Department of Art Glass at the Faculty of Monumental, Decorative and Applied Arts in the Stroganov Academy.
The topic of the master’s thesis is “Aesthetics of forms of inorganic nature in artistic glassmaking”.
Education
In 2009, she graduated with first-class honors degree from the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Moscow Pedagogical State University.
In 2017-2021, she continued her studies at the academic drawing and painting courses at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Art and Industry (Stroganov Academy).
Since 2021, she is a master’s student at the Department of Art Glass at the Faculty of Monumental, Decorative and Applied Arts in the Stroganov Academy.
The topic of the master’s thesis is “Aesthetics of forms of inorganic nature in artistic glassmaking”.
Since 2019, she is a member of the National Union of Pastelists of Russia.
Since 2020, she is a member of Creative Union of Artists of Russia.
Awards
1st Place Award for the glass piece “Graphics of Mountains” at the Decorative and Applied Arts section of 42nd Youth Exhibition of the Moscow Art Museum of Russia, 2022.
1st Place Award for the piece “Malachite of Aksay” (dry pastel) in the Plants section at the 4th exhibition on Wild Nature held by the National Union of Pastelists of Russia, 2020.
Best Pastel Award for the piece “Spring Flood” at the online exhibition Into Nature Award by White Bear Center for the Arts, 2021
1st Place Award for the piece “Krestovsky Pond” in the Water Element nomination.
2nd Place Award for the piece “Twilight in the Meschersky forest” in the Landscape nomination.
3rd Place Award for the piece “Spring in February” in the Landscape nomination at the 2nd International Competition of Pastelist Artists “Pastelium”, 2020.
2nd Place Award for the piece “Barents Sea. Kola Peninsula” in the Pastel nomination at the art competition “Stroganov traditions”.
The main themes of her creative works are nature, mountains, sky, elements, which are directly referred to her interests in mountaineering, paragliding, in her love to nature.