Town: Norway, Maine
Genre: Painting, Drawing, Multi-Media
Artwork: Painting, Drawing, Multi-Media
Artist Biography:
Irina is a practicing artist and instructor. She graduated in l995 East Carolina School of Art, M.A. Art Education, Greenville, N.C. Graduated majoring in painting, thesis research in drawing education styles of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. East Carolina University School of Art, Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key, Art Student of the Academic Award 1992, B.A. in Ed. Courses included design, sculpture, metals, printing, Art History, painting, ceramics. She also holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Russian language, psychology and business.
Currently she is teaching private lessons in painting, watercolors, acrylics and oils at the Lajos Matolcsy Arts Center – with experience as a college professor of art appreciation and figure drawing at Chowan University, Chowan Community College and as a teacher k-12 in public and private schools.
As a practicing artist, Irina enjoys nature, Maine, and the ever-changing moods of the Maine environment. Her favorite media is oil painting followed by acrylics and then watercolors. She loves photography and computer graphics.
Her work has been exhibited at the McLaughlin Gardens and Stephens Memorial Hospital in Maine and in galleries in Greenville, N.C. and art auctions for the last several years. Her murals have been displayed at the Raleigh Durham airport and some are in private residences. She likes celebrating the nuances of life and nature, dancing colors, dancing lines.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Irina Kahn | Western Maine Art Group
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