About the Artist

Honored Artist of Russia. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Being born in Russia, artist Irina Rybakova is a well-known master of landscape and genre painting. Her hometown is the village known as «Akademichka», base of summer school of Repin’s Academy of Art (St. Petersburg, Russia). The world of the Russian village, the image of a simple rural worker, these subjects are the closest to her heart, and she devoted her talent to tell the world about them. Works of the artist are a song of love to Russian nature, to «my little hometown», to the roots of Russian character and culture. No wonder her work was widely recognized by colleagues, specialists, in Russia, Europe and overseas.

She participated in numerous plein air events in number of countries from the US to Japan, and has great range of awards, from certificates of local events to the level national awards from the government.

By president of Russia she was given a title of Honored Artist of Russian Federation.

Irina Rybakova actively promotes modern realistic painting school in the media, appearing on television and in periodicals. She one of leaders of International Plein air collaborative project between the US and Russia, started in 2013, connecting cultures of these two great nations.