“And you are you?” Drawing

"Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Gods and the Universe." Hilon Anna Yakusheva is an artist explorer, an alchemist, a practical philosopher of the new time, working in the style of metamodernism. She is an archivist of her time and referring to the monomyth "The Hero's Journey" in her works shows the search for her own path to inner freedom. Anna was born in 1991 in a small village Svetloye, Zaporozhye region, Ukraine. Since 2007 she started to study academic drawing and classical painting at art school. In 2013, she graduated from Zaporizhzhya National Technical University and received a diploma in interior design. From 2012 to 2016 she worked in Kiev in SempreArte design studio. Her projects participated in international interior design competitions and were published in well-known magazines. She also painted paintings individually for the interiors of her projects. In 2016, Anna moved to England. Finding herself in a new country and becoming a mum, she started to explore herself. She developed an interest in the topic of emotional intelligence, psychology, esotericism, and various spiritual practices. She also began to expand her art practice and to learn watercolour techniques, book illustration and development of her career as an artist in the global marketplace. Her works are in private collections in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, America, Canada, Russia and Ukraine. "For my visual language I use an incredibly versatile watercolour illustration, light, fluid, like life itself. By supplementing the work with words and magazine clippings, I aim to convey certain messages and coded "cues" to the viewer for their inner transformation. In this way, I create my own unique authorial style. I strive to evoke the viewer's inner, perhaps hidden emotions, to awaken their consciousness to a dialogue with themselves and to show that each of us is unique and is the Great Creator not only of our own lives, but of this World as a whole. My works open your eyes, awaken something very important and forgotten inside, and change your life. I show how multifaceted, easy and free our reality can be if we learn to trust life and hear the voice of our soul." AY Instagram: @anna_yakusheva_art