Member of the St. Petersburg public organization "Society of Watercolor Painters".
Graphic artist.

Karmatskaya Galina Ivanovna was born in 1950 in Estonia. In 1969 she graduated from the Secondary Art School at the USSR Academy of Arts, in 1977 she graduated from the Moscow Printing Institute with a degree in graphic design of printed materials. Over the years, Galina Karmatskaya worked in architecture, interior design, print advertising, posters, and postcards. From 1993 to 2000 she studied the Italian school of watercolor of the 19th century. Since 2010, she has been a member of the St. Petersburg public organization "Society of Watercolor Painters". Galina Karmatskaya is a regular participant in the international biennale Art-Most-Watercolor. At the third international competition Art-Most-Watercolor 2015, Galina Karmatskaya was awarded a 1st degree diploma in the Urban Landscape category. Watercolors by Galina Karmatskaya are in private collections in Russia and Western Europe and decorate the interiors of many administrative institutions in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Lives and works in Pavlovsk.