BIOGRAPHY
Valentina Shoba was born in the town of Mozyr, Gomel region in 1964. In 1982 she graduated from the Republican boarding school for music and fine arts named after I. Akhremchik, and in 1989 she graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts, graphics department. Member of the Union of Artists of Belarus. Since 1989 he has been living and working in Grodno.
Valentina works in her unique technique, which she invented herself: she takes cardboard, applies a special base on it, then draws - as if engraving - an image on the dried layer of this substrate (etching technique). Then she clogs the strokes with paint, and finishes on top with pastels, oil and dry mixed. It is this technique that makes the works of Valentina Shoba unique and immediately recognizable.
AWARDS
Laureate of the prize "For creative achievements in the field of culture and art" named after A. V. Dubko
Winner of the International Competition and Winner of the Grand Prix b. Taylor (Grand-Prix Taylor), France, 2015
