Artist Nataliya Svetnenko was born in Reni, Ukraine. She began to study  art and graphic at the Odessa University in 1994. Since 2003 she has been focusing on miniature and wood paintings by using a special technique developed by Fedoskino and Paleh and in 2004 she worked in St. Petersburg Hermitage museum with a leading master-restorer. In 2006, Nataliya fell in love with the romantic realism style and currently she is living in the ecological village in Krasnoyarsk.