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ValyaNarts is a digital artist who paints in a dark, semi-realist style close to Pre-Raphaelite and Impressionist painting. She depicts figures at moments of extreme emotion — triumph, disaster, tension or stillness — drawing on techniques from the Old Masters to address contemporary problems.
The name ValyaNarts combines her first name, Valya, with a shortened form of her surname, Nartsissova. She attended a watercolor art class in school and later graduated from an institute of architecture, which gave her some grounding in art. Real progress came only through self-directed study, after she left an office job to pursue painting full time.
