"Inner Sun" Painting

Natalia Ustinova is a contemporary abstract artist exploring the space between what is painted and what is perceived.

She began painting at 45, approaching art not as a discipline she had mastered, but as a field of discovery. Her practice is driven by colour, movement, organic forms and the unexpected images that can emerge from abstraction.

Ustinova creates each original painting intuitively, allowing the composition to develop without a predetermined figurative subject. What interests her is what happens next: how a viewer’s eye begins to recognise something within the unknown.

This idea has led to her ongoing Second Vision experiment. After completing an original painting, Ustinova uses AI to examine its existing forms, colours and textures and reveal another possible image hidden within the work. The original remains a unique physical artwork, while the new interpretation becomes a fine art print.

One painting. Many visions.

Her work invites the viewer to look twice — first at what is actually there, and then at what their own perception discovers.

Natalia Ustinova’s practice is an ongoing exploration of abstraction, perception and the boundary between intention and interpretation.