Inna Talantova is a Northern California based artist working primarily in watercolors and oil paints.
Inna grew up in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russia. She attended various art schools, finishing at the state university. With the breakup of the U.S.S.R. in 1991, the region’s art scene blossomed. Inna exhibited her paintings in St. Petersburg and Germany. She moved to the U.S. with her husband Paul C. Miller and their daughter Alexandra. Her paintings are a unique combination of Eastern European sensibilities given new purpose under California light.
Plein Air Painting
In addition to the paintings made in her studio in Monte Rio, California, Inna paints outdoors in the “plein air” tradition, carrying her canvases and tubes of paint to various locations to capture with her brushes light and its changing, unpredictable qualities.
Stump Beach, 2015
Bonefro, Italy, 2015
San Gregorio Beach, CA
Bonefro, Italy, 2015
Pescadero Point, CA
Jenner, CA
Pescadero Point, CA
Bonefro, Italy, 2015
Stump Beach, CA
Sevastopol, Crimea 1991
St. Petersburg, Russia
Willow Creek Road, Occidental, CA
Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, CA
Pescadero Point, 2019
Pescadero Point, 2018
Jenner, CA, 2018
Watercolor. Los Barilles, Mexico.
Salt Point
“When i ARRIVE AT A PLACE, I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SOMETHING IN THAT SCENE SPEAKS TO ME AND I FEEL AN URGENCY TO CAPTURE WHATEVER IT MAY BE—THE LIGHT, A CERTAIN RHYTHM IN THE SHAPES OF THE TREES, OR MOVEMENT. I TRY TO LOOK AT A SCENE INDIRECTLY, AS IF THROUGH A MIRROR, WHERE I CAN SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE MORE THAN THE DETAILS.”
— INNA TALANTOVA
Inna Talantova painting at Salt Point State Park in Northern California in 2017.
STudio work
Oil paintings made in Inna’s studio in Monte Rio, California.
