First time Nastya took a pencil when she was a very little girl. She grew up but drawing and painting did not still played an important part in her life. Most of her time she spent in drama schools. She studied at D.Kharatyan’s classes, took part in different plays and was seriously considering an acting career. Then she got into S.Andriyaki’s school of watercolors which she successfully finished and after which she entered the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography to study scene painting. While studying there she painted more and more and absolutely not the things that she was asked to. Now painting is her main trade, aim and the meaning of her life.

“Actually there are not many modern artists who prefer to work in a realistic manner. It is extremely vital for me. It is like a book. You can swallow it and get a vage impression or you can go through it reading into every line and receive an absolutely different kind of experience from the reading process.
It concerns all my works. For instance if you take the Indian or Cuban series of my works they are not photographic reports or just a mere documenting of what I saw but it is a certain quintessence of a certain experience. If a picture depicts an old woman then it is not just a woman but she would be a particular person who was of a great interest for me. These are all old women who I have met and talked to, they are all combined in one person. Their each wrinkle on their skin, their every hair, their faces, poses…”