Valentina Gerasimova, whose landscapes of the forests and rivers east of Moscow glow with summer sunlight, was born in 1948.She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg and is a member of the Painters Association of Leningrad. From 1975 she was included in many national and international art showings. Her principal exhibitions included: -1990 Vienna -1991 Berlin -1992 Oslo -1993 Sophia -1994 Copenhagen -1995 Brussels -1996 Madrid -1997 Paris Her works are also found in many national and international museums including- -Russian Museum; St. Petersburg -Pushkin Museum; Moscow -National Gallery; Bratislava -Contemporary Art Gallery; Helsinki -Guekosso Art Gallery; Tokyo -Contemporary Art Gallery; Madrid