Before Awakening

Nataliia Volodymyrivna Boldyreva is a Ukrainian artist, painter, graphic artist. Born on December 5, 1946 in Kyiv, she graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute in 1971, where she studied under T. Yablonska, V. Chebanyk, and V. Kasiyan. She has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1980. Since 1971, Boldyreva has worked in the Art Fund of Ukraine, and she has participated in art exhibitions since 1966. Her works are characterized by a keen sense of line, plasticity, and laconicism, and some are metaphorical in nature. Her main works include "White Lake" (1969), "Girl by the Tree" (1970), "Old Apple Tree" (1977), "Winter Silence" (1983), "Sky and Earth" (1995), and others. Boldyreva's works are kept in the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko and in many museums of Ukraine.