"In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water,
from which flow only streams of clearest crystal."

Saint Teresa of Avila

Biography

                 Anna been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil.  In my early teens, she enrolled in a college level art school.  Later Anna was accepted at National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture of Ukraine.  After earning MA in Painting, she began teaching art at college level. Later she earned Masters in Fine Arts at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California. Her earlier work was representational, with some abstract elements. 
                  During studies she struggled to find a happy median between my academic education and abstract art. Then she decided to move away from figurative art completely.
Her vision began to worsen early on in life.  However, she often would not wear glasses and would start seeing the world differently from the position of a nearsighted person.  It was a world without details but with interesting designs, fragments of light with shadows, and  incomplete patterns. 
                 Anna’s paintings expresses the refractions of light.  Refractions comes from the observation and perception of color and light patterns found in nature.  During painting of these new designs based on refractions, she would get lost in meditation of color, shapes, and lines, discovering limitless possibilities and combinations.