Connection (2024) Painting by Inna Kichatova

My name is Inna Kichatova. I am a Russian artist in emigration, but this is now. And before...
I think it all started with love for colours. The thing is that my mother has a degree in civil engineering and somehow, among her books on architecture, I found a small rectangular book, similar to a notebook, on the pages of which there were many colors and shades. When I asked what it was, Mom answered that it was a coller, using it you can help choose the color of walls. This book interested me so much that I spent hours looking at its pages. I that then I really wanted to be a painter and paint the walls different colors chosen from my favorite book. I think at that moment I found my great ion, and this ion has accompanied me all my life. Only I did not it this to myself right away.

As time went on, I continued to be attracted by colors and their shades. It was hard to drag me out of stationery stores. To be honest, this is still happening, only stationery stores have been replaced by art stores.
I drew everywhere and always. At school, these were holiday posters, classmates' notebooks and desks. At the university, morphological albums of my friends and my own, birthday cards, walls of my friends’ houses. I drew everywhere, everything and always, no matter with a pen, pencil or paints.

I received a medical education. When I told my mother that I wanted to be a doctor, she tried to dissuade me and direct me in the direction of creativity, but she did not succeed. I have seven years of practice as a doctor behind me, but my ion has never let me go. Now I often joke "don't argue with mom, mom is always right."
Despite my medical work, I continued to draw. I almost did not have any of my early works left, because they were bought. Each sold painting made me more inspired. I sat at the easel for hours that I didn't notice. In the evening, at night, in the morning, with my eyes closing from sleep, but with no desire to leave my work.

Eventually, I quit medicine and started working as an art teacher for children. I became interested in graffiti, orders started coming in, and then the war... First, I put paints, brushes, and pencils in my suitcase, then I packed everything else. Fitting my life into one suitcase turned out to be not so easy. And so, a taxi, an airport, a bus, a taxi, and I am in Georgia. Here I continue to draw, participate in both solo and group exhibitions. I am also interested in performance art and I create art performances, mixing theater and drawing

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1990
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• Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists