Anya Pautova

Anya Pautova is an artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. She graduated with Master's of Art in 2021 and started her own art practice from exploring possibilities and techniques of visual language. Anya's main mediums are gouache, tempera, oil pastel and watercolors for painting; pencil, inks, and gel pen for graphics. Artist dedicates a lot of time to historical research of old master's techniques and secrets, while experimenting with contemporary visual environment and context. Anya prefers to work outside, like impressionist and use nature's beauty and it's inconsistency as the main source of inspiration.

Between 2017-2019 years Anya Pautova has attended Saint Petersburg vanguard art group "Form + Color" led and inspired by Genadyi Zubkov, the successor and student of Vladimir Sterligov, who inherited Kazimir Malevitch' and early 20th century Russian vanguard ideas. Artist uses in her art many instruments, ideas and visual forms she learnt in this school of thought. Mikhail Matushin and his perspective of color composition inspire her a lot.

Anya is a traveling artist. She travels to see life and nature wonders in various places and to capture it in her works, often switching between techniques, mediums, and formats. In her p...

Stieglitz Saint Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Bachelor`s degree + Master's degree
Program: Textile Design

Graduate school of Beaux Arts
Le Mans, France
Program: General design

Form+Color Art Group
Saint Petersburg
2017 - 2019

- Painting two animation movie projects for musical band "Kluf" 2021,2022
- Personal exhibition of graphic sketches and etudes «ICI-ET-LA», Bar Ouf, Le Mans, France
- Participation in a group ТемператУРА exhibition with animation movie «Alice»
- Exhibition of illustrations iJungle Illustration Awards 2020
- Documentary project “The Dress”, by art-found «Chetverg». with Animation movie «The white Dress» 2020
- Exhibition «The tall Art», Tuemen, art-center Kontora Parohodstva, April 2020
- Interactive exhibition of ceramic art by students of ESBA TALM, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, November 2019
- Exhibition «Form+Color», SPSAAD, Photo seria «Dawn», 2019
- Winner of the Saint Petersburg Painter Award 2019
- International fashion industry exhibition «Generation Next», presenting new collection of interior textiles «The Dream Power» 2018
- Multimedia exhibition «Japanese Impulse», SPSAAD, project «The Touch» 2018
- Graphic Arts student exhibition «Ethnography now», curated by Luisenkova О. О. 2017
- Intermedia student exhibition «Synthesis of Arts», SPSAAD, 2017
- International exhibition "Wearable expressions", project «The Touch»,
Palos Verdes Art Center, CA, USA, 2017
-International fashion industry exhibition «Generation Next», project ...