Alina Dalinin is a Ukrainian artist.
Times are tough right now for
Alina and her family. She recently had to escape to Poland because the Russians
were shelling her town. Then she traveled
to Spain, with her children, to stay with friends while her husband fights to
save their country.
Alina has been painting for
12 years, but she devoted the first 9 years of her professional life as the head
lawyer for a regional bank. She is a very accomplished individual holding master’s degrees in math, physics, business, and law and a bachelor's degree in design and
Art.
However, as Alina will tell you, “My work did not bring me
happiness and inner content! Everything changed when I met my second husband
and gave birth to a son and daughter. I started to draw. I studied hard and
fast in order to achieve mastery of oil painting. While my little children were
sleeping, every night I sat for hours at the easel and trained in painting.
One
of the most important events in my professional activity was the opening of my
art studio, where I teach both adults and children oil painting. My studio
became one of the first private schools in the city. It is very popular and
brings me inexhaustible pleasure.
In 2019, the head of our city handed me the
title of Honorary Ambassador of the Zhytomyr Region for my artistic work and
cultural development of the region.
My studio is 5 years old
this year and over a thousand students have studied there. I became a truly
happy person, because I can do what I love every day and teach my students
that!
I’ve
already had about 10 personal exhibitions and even more collective exhibitions
in Ukraine and Spain. I also took part in the All-Ukrainian exhibition of the
National Union of Artists of Ukraine. I work in many styles, such as contemporary
painting, pop art and portrait.”