Biography:
   Elena Bardina was born on 22 March, 1958 in Lemberg, Ukraine.Her interests in the classical arts were initially aroused by the influence of her Mother who had a penchant for coffee table art books, specifically the works of Paul Gauguin (Eugene-Henri-) (b. June 7, 1848). Her maternal Grandmother ,also nurtured the young Elena's artistic beginnings by insisting that she be enrolled in Ballet classes, even before her formal schooling commenced, which was just as well as it was to be her Ballet that would carry Elena through her establishment years of her early career as a painter. A compulsive doodler, Elena passed many of her primary school years being scolded for over decoration of her exercise books, although always receiving a high distinction for her art class. With several generations of scientists, research engineers and mathematicians forming her heritage, the young Elena was well placed to commence her formal studies at the Lvov Polytech College where she graduated with an engineering diploma in 1980. But her love of the Arts could not be denied, and shortly after leaving with diploma in hand, Elena applied for acceptance at the Academy of Art in Lemberg. During her time at the Academy Elena augmented her income, as a Ballet teacher. Her work started to receive serious attention and acclaim and was exhibited in several Moscow galleries, including the famed Krimsky Val and in the international Commercial Centrum, where regular exhibitions of Muscovite painters take place.
   Her talent allowed her to be accepted in 1986 as a student of well-known Armenian painter Gregor Grigorijan where she added to her talent by traveling to Moscow to study under his tutelage. Again, after several well received exhibitions, Elena was fortunate to win sponsorship to travel and study throughout the art centers of Germany where the study of the style of the German painting school, which is much more influenced by abstraction then the slightly more traditionalist Russian school, caused a strong change of influence to her style. The two-year sabbatical radically affected Elena and she started anew, her painting career, with an almost total renaissance of her art. Elena quickly demonstrated her powerful new style by producing several paintings that allowed her to hold formal exhibitions in the Treveris passage in Trier, Deuschman Gallery in Kassel, in the district court at Bitburg, and of course, the Russian Cultural Centrum in Luxembourg Forever pushing the boundaries of her art, Elena Bardini's latest project is a collaborative international project, with painters from France and Russia, who congregate when schedules permit to bring together the combined artistic styles of the French impressionists, the German Russian Masters into one unique artistic work.Today, Elena Bardina paints from her 'Pied a Tierre' studio in Trier, Germany's oldest and arguably one of the most picturesque Cities in Germany.