Anastasia Youkki Mamoshina

Anastasia Mamoshina, aka Nastia Youkki, is Valencia based Russian artist. She is a watercolorist, urban sketcher, children's book illustrator, and teacher. From 2017 to 2022, she headed Urban Sketchers Saint Petersburg. Anastasia is also an art blogger with over 31,000 followers worldwide.

Her art focuses on two main themes: urban and marine watercolor landscapes. She uses a variety of materials, including ink, watercolors, pastel pencils, markers, and graphite. Anastasia's style is a modern interpretation of reality, characterized by contrasts, negative space experimentation, and texture combination. Each sketch presents a new challenge and a fresh source of inspiration.

Anastasia is a cheerful person with a sense of humour, and she is a licensed skipper (yacht captain) and a polyglot, speaking Russian, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Her paintings are in private collections from Canada, Sri Lanka to RSA. In 2022, her sketch was featured in The World of Urban Sketching book.

She graduated from an art school in 1996, receiving an honorary degree. She is a graduate of the St. Petersburg State University of Economics with a specialization in marketing. In 2001-2008 she
worked as a marketing analyst in a consulting company. In 2021-2022 she completed a one-year course in illustration at the British Higher School of Design.

In 2017 my first personal exhibition took place at the Moscow Museum of Automobile History. In 2020 - the second personal exhibition at the St. Petersburg "Unified Document Center". I also took part in various collective exhibitions in art spaces, the Mining University, the St. Petersburg Opera, libraries and cafes in St. Petersburg.