Anastasiia Maistrenko

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.