Taisia Afonina was born in 1913 in Nikolaev.  In 1936 Afonina entered the Painting department of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she studied with Mikhail Bernshtein, Victor Oreshnikov, Pavel Naumov. In 1946 Afonina graduated from the Repin Institute in Igor Grabar personal Art Studio of monumental painting. Her first participation in the Art exhibition was in 1940. Since the beginning of 1950s she was constantly involved in art exhibitions of Leningrad artists. She painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and genre compositions. She worked in oil painting and watercolors and was most famous as a master of landscape and still-life painting. In 1946 Taisia Afonina was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. Her paintings reside in Museums and private collictions of Russia Finland, USA, Germane, England, France.