"Daffodil" Drawing

Maryna Gradnova is a London-based contemporary artist working primarily in black-and-white ink on paper. Her practice explores memory, displacement, nature, human vulnerability and psychological states through a distinctive gestural language she calls Fieriness.

Developed through decades of professional visual practice spanning contemporary art, theatre, opera, film and costume, Fieriness transforms movement and emotional tension into dense, fluid compositions between figuration and abstraction.

Her works often begin with a place, encounter or unresolved emotional experience and develop through an intuitive process in which ink becomes both image and physical force. Oceans, weather, architecture, human figures and fragments of memory recur throughout her work.

Gradnova’s work has been exhibited internationally across the UK and in Switzerland, Poland, Latvia, Greece and Canada.