Werdenberg Is Blooming Painting

Anna Shesterikova is a Swiss painter with Russian roots, who works and teaches art in her studio in Buchs SG, Switzerland since 2001. She received her education at the Moscow State Textile Academy at the Faculty of Applied Arts in 1993. Growing up among the volcanoes and along the coast of the Pacific Ocean of the Kamchatka Peninsula, she learned early on to sense nature’s permeating energy. "I am deeply convinced that the artist bears full responsibility to the viewer for the energy that his work conveys, so therefore the time I spend at the easel I see as sacred,'' the artist says. Anna Shesterikovahe draws her inspiration from traveling, literature, nature, music and everyday life. Regardless of the source of inspiration, each of her paintings transmits the unique emotional connection she establishes between the artist and the viewer. Anna Shesterikova’s works is wide and versatile ranging from the finest graphic arts, magnificent watercolor and oil portraits, enchanting natural landscapes to complex decorative artistic compositions. Her loose and seemingly effortless technique turns strokes of paint into unique emotional experiences. Anna devotes much attention to finding new ways in art, combining modern techniques with the traditional school of painting.