From September to November 2024, the Krasnodar Art Gallery SANTAL is hosting a personal retrospective exhibition of a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of Kuban, artist Galina Konstantinovna Zabelina. The exhibition includes 53 paintings and graphics created from 1964 to 2024. The exhibition also features a catalog of paintings by the artist's husband Vyacheslav Takhtamyshev (1941-2011). The exhibition is held during the Year of the Family in Russia. Galina Konstantinovna Zabelina was born on February 13, 1941 in Tbilisi. Her father, Konstantin Zabelin, a native of the Yaroslavl nobility, was a theater and film artist and a great lover of art. In 1958, she entered the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Kuban Pedagogical Institute. In 1959, admission to the Faculty of Fine Arts and Labor (later renamed the Art and Graphic Arts Department) opened, which was located in the same building. And Zabelina changed her fate dramatically, once and for all linking her life with art. These were the years when young artists and teachers from Moscow, Kharkov, Nizhny Tagil came to work at the faculty - G.V. Beda, L.I. Lunin and I.T. Lunina, G.M. Here, in the Art and Graphic Arts Department, Galina met her first and only love - Vyacheslav Takhtamyshev, who later became one of the famous painters in Kuban. Zabelina chose graphics for herself so that there would be no rivalry with her beloved. Zabelina was assigned to work in Korenovsk, at school, but a month later she was invited to the art and graphic department, where she worked until 2004, teaching drawing, painting, composition, as well as lithography and linocut. Her creative life began in 1964, when her work was taken to the All-Union art exhibition "Zona Yuga". It was a great success and recognition from colleagues. Since then, the artist has developed both as a graphic artist and as a painter. She worked in almost all techniques of print and original graphics, easel and book, and later became interested in photography, seeing it as one of the types of fine art. During her creative life, Zabelina created more than 1000 finished works and sketches. These are graphic series - "Krasnodar", "Zagorsk", "St. Petersburg", "Moscow Region", "Nature of Kuban". Her favorite genres of painting are still life, less often portrait and landscape. Zabelina is a master of book graphics and posters. Over the years, she has designed dozens of types of printed materials, worked with the Krasnodar (Boris Vasiliev's novel "The Dawns Here Are Quiet") and Maikop publishing houses (Gariy Nemchenko "The Red Rooster - Primutrok", a collection of poems by five Russian poets in the Adyghe language - Pushkin, Nekrasov, Mayakovsky, Yesenin, Lermontov). Classics and modernity, realism and impressionism, color and line, nature and man - everything is imbued with nobility, restraint, self-esteem, clarity and expressive simplicity. Zabelina did not seek herself in the avant-garde styles of the twentieth century, nor in socialist realism. She has always been averse to extremes, developing traditions and experimenting with the archetypes of Russian culture of the 19th – early 20th centuries: from the “Golden” to the “Silver Age”.