Anya Pautova

When I paint, I feel alive.
Anya Pautova is an artist born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She graduated with honors from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Faculty of Monumental Art, and continued her studies in Architectural and Environmental Design at ESBA TALM in Le Mans, France. During her years at the Academy, she trained within one of Saint Petersburg’s leading vanguard art groups, developing a rigorous approach to color and composition rooted in the Russian avant-garde tradition. After her academic training, she returned to direct observation—to landscape, light, and the unmediated experience of being present within a place.

Pautova is a traveling artist whose broader practice, Habitat, documents landscapes, forms of life, and the ways living beings—including humans—inhabit and transform their environments. Working across gouache, oil pastel, tempera, and graphite, she moves between sustained plein-air observation and more immediate studies. In series such as Plein Air Observations, Petites Impressions, and La Nature, she records the particular appearance of a place at a specific moment: shifts of light and atmosphere, plant forms, terrain, weather, and color as it is revealed through prolonged ob...

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

Graduate school of Beaux Arts
Le Mans, France
Program: Architectural & Environmental 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 ...