Artist Tatiana Rugers specializes in Murals and Trompe l'Oeil

painting and it is her true passion and love . 

She was born and grew up in Moscow Russia where she graduated Moscow University with Master’s degree in computer science. She first realized she had passion for art during her grade school and college where took a lot of art classes.

Tatiana Rugers had successful career as computer programmer.  She moved to United States, where she became a citizen, over 14 years ago and her love of art was rekindled. She soon left computer business and followed her heart into the field of art.

 She works mainly in large scale life size projects. It gives her a lot of joy to see viewers being tricked and delighted by Trompe l’Oeil effect illusions - many of them would take a double look and very often touch her painting to make sure that it’s not dimensional. 

   Tatiana Rugers is constantly working on improving her knowledge and skills studying

    techniques of great masters of the past and contemporary artists, reading art books and

    publications, traveling and visiting museums.  She studied under world-renowned artists:

    Pascal Amblard, Pierre Finkelstein, Nicola Vigini, Sean Crosby, George Zaffle,William

    Cochran and many other leading artists in the industry in Europe, Russia and United States.

    Among other sources for her aspirations are conventions, shows and meeting  with  decorative

    art professionals like SALI, MOTM, Salon and  FGP.

  It is important to Tatiana Rugers to really understand and integrate views and diverse cultural

  backgrounds of her clients into her work. Tatiana Rugers believes that art can bring people

  together  as it is a beautiful and powerful form of communication.

She is comfortable with many media but very often prefers to work with acrylics especially when working at clients residences.

One of her favorite stories:

One of Tatiana Rugers murals was installed at the lobby at Prescription Weight Loss Clinic, Bellaire Bluffs, Florida. One day a woman with daughter came to that clinic. Little girl looked at the mural, went straight to the painted sea gull and kissed it.

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