Angelina Mukhina

I am a painter and illustrator from Krasnodar, a southern city in Russia, and I am currently based in Thailand. My visual language has been shaped by movement between places, climates and everyday environments — from warm childhood summers spent at my grandmother’s house in a nearby town, to the botanical richness, markets and street life of the countries I have lived in and travelled through.

I work primarily with soft pastel, watercolor and digital media, creating botanical studies, floral compositions, still lifes and observational sketches inspired by nature and the quiet beauty of everyday life. I am especially drawn to the way light falls on objects, how color shifts in shadow, and how texture can make a subject feel more alive and tactile.

Color relationships, atmosphere, texture and composition are central to my practice. I love materials that allow me to feel physically connected to the process — the velvety softness of pastel, the transparency and fluid layering of watercolor, and the flexibility of digital drawing, which lets me continue creating wherever I am.

For me, painting is a way to slow down perception and deepen my connection with a subject. Whether I am working from observation, photography or a carefully ar...

2005–2009
State Art School, Krasnodar, Russia

2023–2025
School of Illustration
Focused studies in illustration, composition and visual development

Independent and Continuing Study
Online courses, workshops and self-directed practice in watercolor, acrylic painting, sketching and illustration

2024–Present
Pastel and Watercolor Studies under the guidance of a tutor affiliated with the Union of Russian Pastelists

June, 2026
Phuket, Thailand
Group exhibition of soft pastel artworks