Anastasiia Kolokolova

I was born in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and currently live here. I have been painting with watercolors since my early years. I do not limit myself to one genre of painting – landscape, portrait, floral or still life, I love them all. I adore impressionistic art, I think impressionists are artists who admire light and colour, regardless the subject they paint. In this sense, I am an impressionist in my soul, but my paintings belong more to realistic art. I took part in watercolor exibitions and festivals in Ukraine and Poland. My works are in private collections in Ukraine and the UK.

My childhood was spent between Kharkiv and Donetsk region, in picturesque places with variety of landscapes: steppes, forests, meadows and rivers, chalk mountains and ponds. Now looking back at that time I realize that those sceneries and, of course, my beloved parents, who chose those places for living, have formed my love to nature. I always wanted to learn how to reflect this beauty on paper.

Watercolor is my passion. Unlike pencil drawing, which I also love, watercolor technique is much more challenging. It is a very intellectual technique, as it requires thinking about each stage of future work; it rarely forgives you mistakes. But I like wa...

I am a self-taught artist and I study on my own consistently. Besides studying theory of art from books and practicing in painting, I also took courses from Mila Naumova’s online-school “Рисовать могут все” on drawing and watercolour. I also took a watercolor courses of a famous Ukrainian watercolorist Ihor Yurchenko.

2019 - The International Youth Watercolor Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2020 - International Festival of the watercolor miniature MiniWatercolor Kyiv

2020 - the 1st International Biennale of watercolor art in Poland “Your identity through watercolor”.

2020-2021 - “Our Wonderful World - International watercolor exhibition”

My works are in private collections in Ukraine.