now we will find out the artist, svetlana zhekina, svetlana good morning, you started drawing from childhoodand when did you realize that this hobby of yours should become your profession? well , the truth is, yes, i have been drawing since childhood. well , like all children. in any case, it seemed to me that there was nothing special about it. well, my mother, she did not stop trying to find some talent in me. so, having listened once from her female artist friends, and at the unique studio of richard antonovich maya, she decided to take me there, well, in order to try, there really was such a unique studio. this is where the children were given some kind of freedom of creativity. hmm, they always occupied some places at international exhibitions of children's drawings there, and so on, he had, but some kind of such a principle of learning. here, it seems to be a very hated such principle of learning. that is, he didn’t even seem to teach anything, but the children did everything else. right here, right away, i left it and yes, i intended, and in principle, it’s not richard there tonovich