Tatiana Pchelnikova-Perreard is an artist with an academic fine arts education, born in Lipetsk, Russia. The formation of her artistic vision was deeply influenced by the great masters of the Russian school of painting — Konstantin Korovin, Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, and Nikolai Fechin — as well as by the French Impressionists Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, together with Joaquín Sorolla, John Singer Sargent, and Giovanni Boldini.