Lost in a City Painting

Sophia Rodionov (b. 1981 Tallin, Estonia) is a visual artist based in Israel, working primarily in watercolor and mixed-media art. Sophia grew up in a family of scientists and thought to devote her life to science when she entered the chemical faculty of the Technion (Israel Institute). But in a process of studying, she realized that art actually took up most of her life and decided radically to change all the plans. She received her BFA (Visual Arts) from Haifa University in 2006. With background in East-Asian art and philosophy studies, her paintings draw from experiences and impressions of her own life through Japanese culture concept of pause or in quantum science words – antimatter of Universe interpretation. Sophia’s interest and deep love to nature impacting her subject’s choice and artistic language in usage of organic shapes and forms on a verge of reality and abstractions. Sophia believes that art is reflection of other fields of human reality both visible and invisible while art is also the language which allows to think and create new essences. Since 2019 Sophia is co representative of IWS (International Watercolor Society) of Israel team participating and hosting watercolor events in Israel, online and internationally. Her watercolor works has been widely exhibited worldwide in Europe, United States and Japan.