Svetlana, please share some of your earliest experiences or influences that led you to pursue an art career, mainly focusing on the human theme?

Actually, during my studying I had already understood that the most interesting theme for me is the human body. I  distracted from humans, only during summer practice when we were focusing on landscapes and spent a lot of time painting fields and trees or parks and rivers not far from Moscow. So, during summer time, I was engrossed in landscape painting, but when I came back to Academy walls, I began to create with a  new energy new artworks with human bodies and work with models. I think it had always been in my subconscious mind, but my mind understood it a little bit later. Then, I almost stop to work with any theme but humanity and I think one life is not enough to open this enormous and huge question.