Vale­ria Barn­hill – an Amer­i­can artist born in USSR (Rus­sia). Hav­ing engi­neer­ing and design expe­ri­ence, Vale­ria devel­oped her skills in con­tem­po­rary art and opened an art stu­dio in Tyler. She paints, teach­es and par­tic­i­pates in exhi­bi­tions and art shows inter­na­tion­al­ly. Her art­works are in gal­leries and pri­vate col­lec­tions in USA, Rus­sia, Aus­tralia, Africa, and Europe. If you noticed col­or­ful util­i­ty box­es around Tyler, you know now that Vale­ria Barn­hill is one of the artists who won the city art project “Beau­ty and the Box” with her four paintings.

“I am hap­py to do some­thing I love, turn­ing my imag­i­na­tion into a visu­al image, that makes my dream real, and peo­ple are able to see the sto­ry behind the pic­ture. My paint­ing are col­or­ful and pos­i­tive. I like to treat my inner child by cre­at­ing paint­ings and draw­ings with a naive and sim­ple vision of things.

I am also work­ing with Chil­dren Inter­na­tion­al, a com­pa­ny help­ing kids around the world to pro­vide food and shel­ter. By pur­chas­ing my art you join me in this char­i­ty. Thank you.”