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Anastasiia Maistrenko
Artist from Ukraine
Anastasia Maistrenko (Nasyla) was born in 1991 in Kyiv.
In 2014, she graduated from the Kyiv National Institute of Design and Decorative
and Applied Arts named after M. Boychuk with a degree in monumental and
decorative painting.
She studied mosaics, frescoes, stained glass, and ceramics. All this knowledge
influenced her stylistic monumental approach to creating works.
She painted churches, created mosaics, taught painting and drawing for children
and adults.
Now she works mainly in easel painting and ceramics.
In her artistic practice, she looks for complex symbolic and mythical images to
express several ideas and thoughts in one image. He often uses quite sensual,
expressive techniques to make his works “catch” the viewer. He tries to express his
inner feelings through his art, on various relevant and quite personal topics. The
attitude to such concepts as loneliness, loss, changes that you cannot influence
strength of spirit, the afterlife, and the beauty and ugliness of this world, which
often go hand in hand.
Tell what you feel...
Look for 20 seconds. What do you see?
Anastasiia Maistrenko
Artist from Ukraine
Anastasia Maistrenko (Nasyla) was born in 1991 in Kyiv.
In 2014, she graduated from the Kyiv National Institute of Design and Decorative
and Applied Arts named after M. Boychuk with a degree in monumental and
decorative painting.
She studied mosaics, frescoes, stained glass, and ceramics. All this knowledge
influenced her stylistic monumental approach to creating works.
She painted churches, created mosaics, taught painting and drawing for children
and adults.
Now she works mainly in easel painting and ceramics.
In her artistic practice, she looks for complex symbolic and mythical images to
express several ideas and thoughts in one image. He often uses quite sensual,
expressive techniques to make his works “catch” the viewer. He tries to express his
inner feelings through his art, on various relevant and quite personal topics. The
attitude to such concepts as loneliness, loss, changes that you cannot influence
strength of spirit, the afterlife, and the beauty and ugliness of this world, which
often go hand in hand.
Tell what you feel...
Look for 20 seconds. What do you see?
Beast in the forest
Painting by Anastasiia Maistrenko
90 x 100 cm • Oil on canvas
Location:
Vyshhorod, Ukraine
These works are about strength, loneliness, and defiance. My beast is neither good nor
evil; it is different. Like all living creatures, it wants peace and love. I painted these
canvas just before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. They are full of a subconscious
premonition of inevitable changes, a feeling that something hard and tragic is coming.
Location:
Vyshhorod, Ukraine
About the artist
Anastasiia Maistrenko
Artist from Ukraine
Anastasia Maistrenko (Nasyla) was born in 1991 in Kyiv.
In 2014, she graduated from the Kyiv National Institute of Design and Decorative
and Applied Arts named after M. Boychuk with a degree in monumental and
decorative painting.
She studied mosaics, frescoes, stained glass, and ceramics. All this knowledge
influenced her stylistic monumental approach to creating works.
She painted churches, created mosaics, taught painting and drawing for children
and adults.
Now she works mainly in easel painting and ceramics.
In her artistic practice, she looks for complex symbolic and mythical images to
express several ideas and thoughts in one image. He often uses quite sensual,
expressive techniques to make his works “catch” the viewer. He tries to express his
inner feelings through his art, on various relevant and quite personal topics. The
attitude to such concepts as loneliness, loss, changes that you cannot influence
strength of spirit, the afterlife, and the beauty and ugliness of this world, which
often go hand in hand.
Tell what you think...
Look for 20 seconds. What do you see?
