Nelly Drell is an Estonian artist. She was born October 19, 1979, in Tallinn.
As a child she was avid in art and even though studying in Pelgulinna Secondary School she participated in extracurricular actions at the Kullo Art Centre and Kevade Street Art School. After graduating high school she carried on studying painting in 1998-2000 at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She studied at Miami University from 2000 to 2001 where she received her bachelor’s degree and from 2001 to 2003 at the New York Academy of Art where she gained a master’s degree in painting.
Drell experiments in the same way as different art styles. Her paintings put in styles changing from baroque to classic. Her subjects include at the a incorporation of sports events, historical scenes and landscapes. Usage of art form and substitute of motives are shifting but she remains primarily focused on (harmonically depicted) people.
Drell has exhibited her paintings since 1995 at dozens of charity and personal exhibitions. In 2001 she won the Miami International Fine Arts College Young Visual Artist Award and in 2008 the SMV-prize in the Estonian Artists Union’s annual exhibition.
From 2005 she has been a devotee of the Estonian Artists’ Union.
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