Tatyana was born in Smolichi, Kletsk district, in 1967. In 1985 she graduated the Bobruisk Art School with a diploma in porcelain painting. Then, she attended the Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute and had gotten her degree in the Art and Graphics in 1991. Since then and to this day, Tatyana has lived and worked in Kletsk, successfully combining creative activity with teaching, and is now the Head of the Art Department at the Kletsk Children's Art School.
In 2016 and 2018, she was awarded the titles of "Woman of the Year" in the Republican contest for her accomplishments in teaching the art to children and contributions to the art, respectively. In 2021, she became a member of the Eurasian Art Union.
She has been exhibiting since 2007. The geography of her solo exhibitions is not limited to her homeland, but goes far beyond the borders of not only the city, but also the country. Thus, her work can be found in Nesvizh, Zaslavl, Minsk, Vitebsk, Maryina Gorka, Lida, Brest and Swiebodzin (Poland).
Tatyana Matusevich’s creative style clearly demonstrates her love for the watercolor technique as an inexhaustible source of inspiration. This source, like a precious treasure, opens up only to those who are spiritually in tune with nature and intuitively communicate with the watercolors on the same emotional wavelength.
The artist has masterly ease in accessing blur effects and multifaceted tonal nuances. She has a sense of composition and does not fill the entire sheet with paint, leaving the white color of the paper as an eloquent air layer and uses it for figurative expressiveness.
Her still lifes are, in fact, portraits of flowers, sometimes a single flower and even a single petal, in which the entire life of the whole plant is concentrated, be it a bush, a tree or a violet meadow. The artist's reverent and feminine tender attitude to "her characters" is impressive: she sees them in images, and not in a specific drawing. Looking at the petals, you catch yourself thinking that the artist gifted the plants with eternal youth, which awakens anew every year and each tree, old or young, blooms equally freshly in the spring, fragrant with youth like a bride, and the petals, like butterflies, fly away in a magical dance. Hence the poetic and dynamic name of the current exhibition.
In 2016 and 2018, she was awarded the titles of "Woman of the Year" in the Republican contest for her accomplishments in teaching the art to children and contributions to the art, respectively. In 2021, she became a member of the Eurasian Art Union.
She has been exhibiting since 2007. The geography of her solo exhibitions is not limited to her homeland, but goes far beyond the borders of not only the city, but also the country. Thus, her work can be found in Nesvizh, Zaslavl, Minsk, Vitebsk, Maryina Gorka, Lida, Brest and Swiebodzin (Poland).
Tatyana Matusevich’s creative style clearly demonstrates her love for the watercolor technique as an inexhaustible source of inspiration. This source, like a precious treasure, opens up only to those who are spiritually in tune with nature and intuitively communicate with the watercolors on the same emotional wavelength.
The artist has masterly ease in accessing blur effects and multifaceted tonal nuances. She has a sense of composition and does not fill the entire sheet with paint, leaving the white color of the paper as an eloquent air layer and uses it for figurative expressiveness.
Her still lifes are, in fact, portraits of flowers, sometimes a single flower and even a single petal, in which the entire life of the whole plant is concentrated, be it a bush, a tree or a violet meadow. The artist's reverent and feminine tender attitude to "her characters" is impressive: she sees them in images, and not in a specific drawing. Looking at the petals, you catch yourself thinking that the artist gifted the plants with eternal youth, which awakens anew every year and each tree, old or young, blooms equally freshly in the spring, fragrant with youth like a bride, and the petals, like butterflies, fly away in a magical dance. Hence the poetic and dynamic name of the current exhibition.