About the Artist

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=100 BGCOLOR="#660033" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#660033" FACE="Arial" ><B>Art Tract, The Artist's Website </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >    </FONT> |  <A HREF="arttracthome.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><U> </U></A><A HREF="arttracthome.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>____________________________________________________________________</B></div> <div> <B>____________________________________________________________________</B></div> <div> <B>About the Artist</B></div> <div> <A HREF="tessnartneff_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tess Nartneff "><U><B>Tess Nartneff </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="tessnartneff_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tess Nartneff "><U><B>Artist</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="tessnartneff.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tess Nartneff"><U><B>Craftsman</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Residence:  Toronto, Ontario, Canada</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="20" CELLSPACING="6" WIDTH="504" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BBBBBB" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#BBBBBB > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 770 WIDTH="446"><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="220" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 160 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c3ec8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B> Tess Nartneff - </B>Highly educated<B> </B>Professional Artist, from Toronto (Ontario, Canada), who started her career after finishing the Architectural department of Brest's University.</div> <bR> <div> <B> </B>She works in different techniques, manner and spheres of Art. From the earliest years she fills strong craving for a beauty, thirst for Art and test to the Fashion. She follows the traditional realistic manner of oil and watercolor paintings, but she brings into her work a lot of her own feelings, sensations and some specific of modern Art . She likes flowers and creates a lot of inimitable beauty art pieces of flowers. Her still-lifes, are always perfect in composition and technique, and will be a pearl of interiors of private homes and public buildings.   </div> <bR> <div> She has her own principles in creative work, and one of them - never do any even authors copies of her art works. So if you'll decide to buy one of her art works, you can be sure that you'll get unique canvas.</div> <bR> <div> "I create collections of absolutely unique Luxury Art pillows. All pillows I make in one example only. All pillows I do by myself from the beginning to the end. I create the unique painting for every pillow and never do and never use any copy for other pillows. I do the unique design for every single pillow and create not only the Art of pillows, but the Hi End technology for my pillows." </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Tessa's art works are in private collections in France, USA, Finland, Poland, Canada and Russia.</div> <bR> <div> In the year1983 she began her work as a fashion artist in the famous (in that time) Russian magazine “Fashion”. In 1987, she left this work and owned her fashion business.  In 1989 her enterprise became a department of a big science-production firm “Unitemp”. In the 1991 she, together with other businessmen, found a Creative science-production firm “Beenart”, where she works as a deputy director general. In the1995, she sold her part in ownership of “Beenart”   company and begun her work as an art-director and vice- president (production director) of US companies “MCM of Hollywood” and “Delta-Production”. Those companies specialized in production and pursues of lingerie. Then, in 1997, she left that company and started her work as art-creative-director and, in the same time, as a production director of big Russian production and trade company “Krilony” (before that this company named “Kristy”). She was twice awarded the gold medal for best collection of lingerie and she had won the awards for the best fashion designer of lingerie and underwear in the International Exhibitions. </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width=100 BGCOLOR="#660033" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>