About Tatyana Holodnova

Shortly after receiving her bachelor’s of art, in 1996 Tatyana won a Green Card lottery, which allowed her to move to the United States. She settled in northern California, leaving behind the instability and uncertainty of the collapsed Soviet Union. For the first time in her life Tatyana could draw on nature and a carefree lifestyle, to both sustain her and inspire her art.

Once in the United States, Tatyana studies under David Leffel, considered by many to be a “virtuoso of light and composition”, whose distinctive style clearly reflects the Dutch Masters of the 17th Century. Indeed this earned him the moniker “20th Century Old Master.”
Holodnova credits his influence for her move towards beauty in compositions, employing entirely different approach from what she learned in Russia where social realism and political idealism were the most dominant styles. Tatyana formed a new relationship with art. She discovered through this transition and study of the old masters her attraction to Renaissance and Baroque Schools.

Holodnova’s work has been exhibited in many group shows and artist leagues as well as the galleries.