Tatiev Talgat is an artist-painter, a Member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the winner of the diploma and the prize of the Akim of the East Kazakhstan region in the nomination “Fine Art” (Semey, May 25, 2012).

He was born in the village of Makanchi Semipalatinsk region. In 1991 he graduated from the art-graphic faculty of Semipalatinsk Pedagogical Institute named after Krupskaya. From 1991 to 1997 he worked as an artist-restorer and chief curator in the Museum of Fine Arts named after the Nevzorov family of Semipalatinsk (now Semey). From 1997 to 2003, being a free artist, he was actively engaged in creative activity. Since 2003 Tatiev has been a teacher at the Fine Arts Department of Semipalatinsk State Pedagogical Institute (now Semipalatinsk State University named after Shakarim).

Talgat Tatiev’s painting fascinates and intrigues with its rich texture and variety of colorful palettes. Painting examples, developed over many years, are addressed to the folk traditions of the Kazakh national patchwork technique but the artist’s outlook on the world gravitates to the abstract, which has no symbols or familiar images. Turning to the light, he helps us not to think, but to feel the world, abstracting from its dark manifestations. This is what the master strives for in his work Steppe.