About The Artist

Anna was born in 1962 in Moscow (Russia), traveled worldwide, and still lives in her native city that has become one of the core themes of her art. She received her formal art education during 10 years of studies at the well-known Krasnaya Presnya Art School in Moscow that focused on training comprehensive skills in the arts along the traditional academic lines. Later on, she enrolled in the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages, graduating in 1985. She worked for several Russian publishers, authoring the translations of more than a dozen book titles (some of them are released in English, with her name on their title page). It was Anna's unconscious habit, since childhood, to carry (and use) her sketchbook wherever she traveled. But it was only in her thirties that her unique and recognizable style began to evolve. She moved on from oils that she mastered in her youth to painting in acrylics and alkyds, and from the strict teachings of Realism to the free, more fluid world of Symbolism and Expressionism. Anna's meticulous approach to producing a painting requires long hours of work with an increasingly tiny brush, applying layers of paint and fine details, until the desired image finally emerges. The result can be described as 'drawing with paint', or 'painted embroidery'.