Born in 1971 in Belarus, Galka now lives in Callian, a charming hilltop village a few miles from Cannes. A lifelong painter, she trained at the Brest School of Fine Arts (Belarus), where she mastered classical techniques from painting to sculpture. But it is in France — her adopted country since 1994, where she obtained citizenship in 2005 — that she fully liberated her pictorial language. She opened her studio in 2006 and began an artistic adventure fueled by the southern light, the vibrations of Provence, and an unquenchable desire to create.
Galka does not adhere to any strict movement: her unmistakable style lies at the crossroads of naïve painting, joyful abstraction, and a powerfully mastered dreamlike imagination. Her works read like colorful tales — emotional mosaics, inner landscapes where color becomes language, energy, and vital breath. Each canvas, in its own way, reinvents a world: red-roofed villages, animal-characters, stylized feminine faces, and elements of nature arranged in a symphony of hues. She composes with spontaneity, yet with great graphic precision — forms are finely chiseled, lines balanced, harmonies masterfully orchestrated.
