Svetlana Cameron

Svetlana Cameron is a classically trained artist dedicated to the revival of the Old Masters' painting and drawing methods. She specializes in traditional portraiture but equally enjoys working in other genres of figurative art. She is based on the Isle of Man, where she works out of her studio in Braddan. The quality of Svetlana Cameron's work has been recognised by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London, and her artworks can be found in many private collections and in the collection of the Isle of Man Parliament.

 

Background

 

Svetlana Cameron describes herself as "a Russian-born British artist living on the Isle of Man".

 

Her interest in art was evident from an early age but initially she did not consider it as a possible career. She studied foreign languages and after gaining a MA in linguistics worked as a translator and interpreter in Moscow.

 

Svetlana's transition to art began when she enrolled in a series of art history courses, responding to the demand in qualified multi-lingual guides at the national museums and art galleries. She describes the time she spent studying and working at such major museums like the Kremlin, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art and the Tretyakov Art Gallery as "life-changing experience". It helped her discover her passion for art, introduced her to works by great masters, shaped her tastes and set her standards. Svetlana dates the beginning of her career as an artist to those days, during which she got an insight into artists' visual language, learnt the rules of composition, perspective and colour theory, and discovered how artists' studio practices and choice of materials affected longevity of their works.