“Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”  Pablo Picasso

My name is Olga Romanova.

I am a full time professional artist in Oil Paintings. Art has always been my passion. I knew from a very early age that art was going to be the most important in my life.

I was born on April 4, 1970 in the family of artists in Penza town. I started painting when I was 2. I was lucky. I have no become "the Prodigal Son" and I have no devoured my talent.

In 1984 I finished Penza Art School and in 1988 I finished Penza Art College. I loved those years. My way to art has begun with a water-color, but oil painting… The water-color has given me the freedom and has helped me to realize myself as the creative person. Oil Painting has given me sensation of flight and omnipotence.

I love oil painting. I love first of all the smell of the paint and love to work with people and nature. I want to show the beauty of the human soul, of the nature, Beauty is hidden in everything, you only have to see it.

I call my work "penetration to mystery". Therefore, I have to reflect everything differently and the best possible. My way of working is to display the private world of the object as faithfully as possible.

“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”  T.S. Eliot

In 1995 I moved in Melikhovo. I had many exhibitions:

 1996: The Solo Exhibition at the Chekhov's museum in Melikhovo.

1998: The Solo Exhibition at the Man's museum in Moscow.

1999: The Solo Exhibition at the Cultural center of Lithuania (Moscow).

2000-2006: "Gold brush" (Moscow).

2000-2011: "Russian Art Help" (Moscow - London).

I have understood who I am. I became the professional artist.

There were many meetings with very interesting people. Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Oleg Yefremov, Hurd Hatfield, Juozas Budraitis, Yuri Senkevich, Vladimir Spivakov… The meetings with them have given me a lot. I learned to be free and correctly to realize myself in this world.

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”  George Bernard Shaw

Today I am 40. It's my Point of no Return.
It's a maturity on my calendar. I am a mature person with my outlook and concept of life.

I am free from unnecessary illusions and another's opinions. I know that I want, and I know that I do not want.

I have a choice and it mine.

I know value of creativity. I have possibility to work how I understand it and I feel it, without looking back at tendencies art-business.

I do not catch mirages because I know my way.

I do not owe anything to anybody and it makes me free.

I still want and can think. I do not know what is depression, because I have faith in God.

My talent is my diamond of the first water which can't be taken away and which gives me dividends more than money all world.

My future is in God hands, therefore I am quiet...