"Vivacious" 2015 Tulip Time Festival 2015, Top 20, Holland, MI
“Vivacious”, an impressionistic oil painting, has been honored to be selected by the judges of the Tulip Time Festival here in Holland, Michigan, to be on Top 20! It was incredible award for me to open the door into the Artistic world here in the USA!
Tulips are much more than spring flowers. For centuries they have been a symbol of beauty and prosperity. But to me, they symbolize a story of my family immigration. Just like tulips immigrated from Turkey, to Germany, then Netherland, then Holland, Michigan, our family, after leaving collapsed Soviet Union, in a long journey from Siberia, landed here, in Holland, Michigan.
In 2012 I decided to challenge myself by starting from scratch just like in 1996, leaving all familiar in the collapsed Soviet Union and moving with my two daughters to the USA, the local family helped me to settle in Holland, MI. At the age of 51 I quit my job in adoption and decided to devote myself to the arts. Very soon I realized that in order for me to establish myself as a local artist I must paint tulips.
And that’s how it all started: “Vivacious” painted in August 2014 to be submitted in September, was accepted into the Top 20 for the 2015 Tulip Time Festival Poster Contest.
“Vivacious”, an impressionistic oil painting, has been honored to be selected by the judges of the Tulip Time Festival here in Holland, Michigan, to be on Top 20! It was incredible award for me to open the door into the Artistic world here in the USA!
Tulips are much more than spring flowers. For centuries they have been a symbol of beauty and prosperity. But to me, they symbolize a story of my family immigration. Just like tulips immigrated from Turkey, to Germany, then Netherland, then Holland, Michigan, our family, after leaving collapsed Soviet Union, in a long journey from Siberia, landed here, in Holland, Michigan.
In 2012 I decided to challenge myself by starting from scratch just like in 1996, leaving all familiar in the collapsed Soviet Union and moving with my two daughters to the USA, the local family helped me to settle in Holland, MI. At the age of 51 I quit my job in adoption and decided to devote myself to the arts. Very soon I realized that in order for me to establish myself as a local artist I must paint tulips.
And that’s how it all started: “Vivacious” painted in August 2014 to be submitted in September, was accepted into the Top 20 for the 2015 Tulip Time Festival Poster Contest.
“Vivacious”, an impressionistic oil painting, has been honored to be selected by the judges of the Tulip Time Festival here in Holland, Michigan, to be on Top 20! It was incredible award for me to open the door into the Artistic world here in the USA!
Tulips are much more than spring flowers. For centuries they have been a symbol of beauty and prosperity. But to me, they symbolize a story of my family immigration. Just like tulips immigrated from Turkey, to Germany, then Netherland, then Holland, Michigan, our family, after leaving collapsed Soviet Union, in a long journey from Siberia, landed here, in Holland, Michigan.
In 2012 I decided to challenge myself by starting from scratch just like in 1996, leaving all familiar in the collapsed Soviet Union and moving with my two daughters to the USA, the local family helped me to settle in Holland, MI. At the age of 51 I quit my job in adoption and decided to devote myself to the arts. Very soon I realized that in order for me to establish myself as a local artist I must paint tulips.
And that’s how it all started: “Vivacious” painted in August 2014 to be submitted in September, was accepted into the Top 20 for the 2015 Tulip Time Festival Poster Contest.
