MISSION:

"Tip Top Kids Gallery" art provides a very peaceful and harmonious atmosphere for children's environment where their imagination is enhanced by playful and amusing images of animals, birds and fish. Created by Maya Elston, the artist behind the artwork, it is addressed to children in kindergarten and pre-school ages.

Most of the time people choose colors for their kids' rooms that are in accord to the rest of the décor of the house, which is usually in subdued tonality. Although this may look harmonious, kids are attracted to bright and contrasting colors. The tonalities of Maya's compositions are very vivid and exuberant. Furthermore, it is important to emphasize the emotional influence of a design that will stay much longer on the wall in comparison with a toy that is tossed soon aside.

MAYA ELSTON - BRIEF RESUME:

Maya had traditional academic education including five years of art school majoring in paintings, followed by six years in the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, graduating in mural paintings. Her work has been exhibited at a personal show and at national art exhibitions in Sofia, Prague, Bratislava, Moscow, Petersburg and Hamburg. All work created at this time was purchased for presidential residencies, major art collections and hotel complexes. In addition to her involvement with the activity of the Bulgarian Union of Artists where she was the chairman of the Mosaic group, she had received national prizes for her artistic work.

Being trained also in art conservation, for twenty years, from 1983 to 2003, she worked full time at the J. P. Getty Museum as an associate conservator for the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, traveled abroad for lecturing, and published extensively about her projects.

Below: Panoramic view from my studio

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without written permission of the artist.

P.O.Box 624, Topanga, California 90290