Hi! I am Anastasiia! Currently, I am living in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, with my family. I am a self-taught artist, and I always felt charmed and involved in art matters – as a teacher, volunteer, or parent. The selection of my subject matter, either living creatures, natural or imaginative landscapes & scenes, is guided by my routine experiences and emotions, nurtured by continuous resettlement and discovering new places and cultures. Thus, I am both a nature and urban-life-inspired artist. I use various materials and tools in my creative process, always trusting the unfettered hand of art. Sometimes, I use only one medium in an artwork; occasionally, it involves a combination of several. I often hear from artists that many find themselves constantly switching ideas, materials, or tools. Personally, I discovered my own secret and the foundation of such variability, which I researched and explained in my graduate project, “An Identity as Yet Unfixed – becoming an Artist Despite and Through Cultural Changes.” My work is a vivid exploration of the surroundings through watercolours, coloured pencils, ink, and more, which result in a primarily abstract form enhanced with vivid strokes and fine lines. Like a rhizome, an artist is constantly becoming, as a multiplicity of people and places – or mediums and ideas. So am I, moving from the brightness of watercolours to the strict shapes and fluid patterns. And after that, to something else…