Shkeleva Daria

Daria Valentinovna Shkeliova was born in St. Petersburg and spent her youth there. She finished a secondary art school under the direction of Valentine Sergeyevich Cherviakovsky, an associate professor of St. Petersburg Art and Industry Academy.
Daria graduated from St. Petersburg State University, receiving a degree in management. After that she spent many years studying fine arts in Tamara Fiodorovna Kavolina`s workshop. Kavolina is a member of the Russian Union of Artists and a full-time professor of Ilya Repin State Academic Institute of Fine Arts. 
Daria also finished the summer school opened by Ilya Repin State Academic Institute of Fine Arts under the direction of Vladimir Alexandrovich Mogilevtsev. At the moment Daria Shkeleva is getting the second higher education in Ilya Repin State Academic Institute of Fine Arts. Daria is a full-time member of the Union of Artists. She has taken part in a large number of exhibitions, her works have been included in various private collections both in Russia and abroad, even in the collection of Sitagu Sayadaw himself.