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Lapygina Anna

Lapygina Anna

A serene portrait of a child among flowering trees, with soft pastels and gentle light. Style: {

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Biography

Education

  • 1996graduated from art school in the city of Vladimir with excellent grades; my teacher was Victor Dynnikov. It was he who encouraged me to enter the Repin Academy of Arts, and in
  • 2002became a student of that Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. E. Kochergin, I. Kravtsov, I. Uralov, A. Denderina and many others were my teachers at the Academy and remain my teachers to this day.
  • 2008graduated from the Russian Academy of Arts, having defended my graduation thesis with an excellent grade and praise from the State Attestation Committee.

Career

  • Since 2010a member of the Artists' Association of St. Petersburg.

Exhibitions

  • 2005-2008participation in the painting of frescoes in the Church of the Icon of the Sovereign Mother of God. St. Petersburg.
  • 2007-2008participation in the painting of frescoes in Sergiy Radonezhsky Russian Orthodox Church, Johannesburg, SAR.
  • 2009set design for the play Attendez based on A. Pushkin ("The Queen of Spades") on the small stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater, St. Petersburg.
  • 2009set design for the play An Island. Seagulls. Three cats… based on M. McDonagh (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) at the theater "At Chyornaya Rechka", St. Petersburg.
  • 2010set design and costumes for the play FABULOUS STORIES FROM THE LANES based on fairy tales by Kornei Chukovsky at the theater "At Chyornaya Rechka", St. Petersburg.
  • 2010set design and costumes for the play Squaring the Circle based on Valentine Kataev, small stage of Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, St. Petersburg.
  • 2010publication of my works in Ostwind magazine, Germany.
  • 2010participation in the painting of frescoes in the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God on the territory of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Turku, Finland.
  • 2009-2011teacher at the studio of E. Kochergin, Theater Academy, St. Petersburg.

Grants and competitions

  • 1995Silver medal in the "Exlibris" regional competition;
  • 1996a winner of the All-Russian competition for children's book illustrations in the city of Gelendzhik;
  • 2006grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada;
  • 2007"St. Petersburg Muse" grant, St. Petersburg.
  • 2008scholarship for creative work from the Russian Artists' Association.
  • 2009awarded the Medal of Sergiy Radonezhsky, First Class by Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, for participation in painting frescoes in Sergiy Radonezhsky Russian Orthodox Church, Johannesburg, SAR.
  • 2010finalist in the "ArtPreview" international competition in modern art, Moscow.
  • 2011awarded a diploma at the "Theaters of St. Petersburg — for children" theater festival for artistic work on the play "FABULOUS STORIES FROM THE LANES" based on fairy tales by Kornei Chukovsky at the theater "At Chyornaya Rechka", St. Petersburg.
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