Born in a small village in Russia in 1980, Daria Blizhenskaya was involved in art since her early years. Both Daria and her older brother Euzheniy are successful Russian artists, painted together at home during their childhood. At the age of 9 Daria attended private art school where her talent was quickly noticed by her teachers. In 1997 determined to give happiness by creating beauty, Daria Blizhenskaya, left her city and traveled to metropolitan Voronezh, where she was admitted to the one of the strongest Russian Art University, Voronezh State University. It was during this period that she absorbed and expressed the ideas and influences of Van Gogh, Monet, and Gustav Klimt producing impressionist works that already more than hinted at her positive and effervescent style.

As in many Russian academic families, Daria and her older brother were raised on Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. In fact, in most of her painting we can see the influence of these writers and the culture of those times. Extravagant women who exude femininity, self-confidence and class are one of the main subjects of the artist�s early works.

Following her heart, Daria came to Montreal and settled there. In her later works she paints Montreal�s cathedrals and streets, pursuing more architectural subject. Here, she also discovers her unique distinctive style.

Daria�s canvases are nothing less than vibrant mixture of colors with the laying underneath abstract vision of reality. A positive, powerful and highly intelligent painter, Daria Blizhenskaya is endowed with magnificent creative inventiveness.

�The activity of art is based on the fact that a man, receiving through his sense of hearing or sight another man's expression of feeling, is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who expressed it.� (Lev Tolstoy)