Inner strength (2022) Painting by Anna Motrych

For as long as I can remember, I have been a creative person. Since childhood, I have been drawing something all the time, writing fairy tales and poems, cutting, gluing and inventing.

However, I never perceived creativity as my possible profession.

Therefore, I received a higher education in the field of sociology: social processes and patterns, as well as social psychology, have always interested me.

I am satisfied with my education - it laid a solid foundation and conceptual basis for my future work.

I came to serious creativity after the birth of my daughters, in 2015. I decided to study drawing and illustration online, took several courses in academic drawing and illustration from famous masters.

I took small orders to illustrate book covers, children's poems, etc.

Another passion of mine is animals. Since 2020, I have been painting watercolor portraits of pets to order.

However, the soul requires conceptual self-expression. In 2019, Eastern spiritual practices, yoga and meditation appeared in my life. Since then, I have been trying to put my vision of the unity of all things into each of my paintings.

The war in my native country, Ukraine, became a turning point not only in my life, but also in my work. My family and I had to leave our home and seek asylum in Germany. And at the same time, the war showed us all that we need to live in the moment. Because the next moment may simply not be ... When to live, if not now? Since then, my paintings have become bolder, brighter, and the brush stroke - wider. I came to abstract painting.

I am also the author of poems in Russian and Ukrainian, I write fairy tales.

In my work, I raise the eternal themes of spirituality, love for all living things and unity.

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1988
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• Groups: Ukrainian Contemporary Artists