| type="text/javascript"> ch_client = "articlealley"; | | | | even her apartment staircase. She also found Michael, |
| ch_type = "mpu"; ch_width = 590; ch_height = 250; | | | | arrested by the police. The police did not punish him |
| ch_non_contextual = 4; ch_noborders = 1; | | | | however, and some may have found it quite |
| ch_vertical ="premium"; ch_sid = "590x250 Article | | | | romantic. They continued their relationship, eventually |
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| ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected]; } Michael | | | | each other as the similarities are endless. At only |
| Garmash began his art career at the early age of | | | | fifteen, Inessa enrolled at Lugansk Fine Art School. |
| three. When he was six, when most children are | | | | Like Michael, Inessa received awards and accolades |
| entering grade school, he was attending the Lugansk | | | | such as "best undergraduate". |
| Youth Creative Center, beginning his formal education | | | | Today, Michael and Inessa Garmash have created |
| as an artist. His works were displayed at Exhibitions in | | | | paintings together all over Europe. As unique as each |
| the Ukraine, Russia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. In | | | | of their lives, the way in which they started painting |
| 1987, Garmash graduated from the Lugansk State | | | | together is both spontaneous and chance. Michael |
| Fine Art College as valedictorian, a short 18 years | | | | painted a portrait of their daughter for his art school, |
| after birth in the same town he grew up in. After | | | | only to find that it had been altered. Michael and |
| teaching there for sometime, Garmash continued on | | | | Inessa's two year old daughter had added some |
| to eventually graduate from St. Petersburg Academy | | | | colorful additions, so Inessa quickly re-touched and |
| of Art in 1996 as the head of his class. Michael | | | | covered them up. Michael immediately noticed the |
| Garmash's accomplishments were far from ordinary | | | | painting of his wife's gentle strokes, but submitted it |
| as is his artwork. Garmash always stood out as an | | | | as it was. He was later told that this was the best of |
| over achiever and his master pieces convey his | | | | his career. Since then, Michael and Inessa Garmash |
| dedication to his profession. | | | | have been creating master pieces together, |
| Michael met Inessa on campus in 1990. The following | | | | conveying emotion, love, romance and delicacy |
| day, Inessa found her portrait painted all around | | | | through their realistic portraits that look even better |
| town, including the walls of public buildings, roads, and | | | | than pictures and more crisp than real life. |