About the artist
Anastasiia Petriaeva
Watercolour artist · Author of video courses
A practicing watercolor artist, participant and prizewinner at international exhibitions and competitions, and author of video courses on watercolor technique translated into several languages.
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Biography
Creative path
Born in 1992 in Russia. Graduated with a red diploma (highest honors) from the Novouralsk Art School (a nine-year program). Graduated with honors from the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts with a degree in industrial design, where she received thorough training in academic drawing, composition, color theory, 3D modeling and the physics of light.
She worked in packaging, website and mobile app design until 2018, when she became captivated by watercolor. She studied with many renowned watercolor masters, shaping her own unique style and vision.
Teaching since 2019. She currently exhibits actively, collaborates with publishers, has been featured in magazines, and works with several major art brands of brushes and paints.
Anastasia's original video courses are popular with watercolor enthusiasts around the world and have been translated into several languages. She is a guest instructor at major international online schools.
Her original works are held in private collections in Russia, Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, China and Australia.
Her main genre is landscape as a state of mind, focused on the positive emotions that come from contemplating nature: the transparency of water, reflections, and the play of light in the clouds.
Artist statement
Watercolor as a form of meditation
In my watercolor landscapes, I try to capture images of nature that bring vivid, positive emotions: the culminating moments of contemplation, such as the childlike wonder of wading into clear water and watching the stones shimmer beneath the surface. I believe the capacity to marvel at nature is part of human nature itself.
I try to understand the scale of a human being within the world and to feel a connection with the many generations who admired, and will go on admiring after us, the same things: the sky, the play of light in the clouds, ocean waves, the transparency of water. This connection becomes an anchor that brings us back to ourselves, for life on our planet began in water.
My goal is to help people slow down and experience the sublime, harmonious state that is so lacking amid the bustle and stress of big cities. I use the expressive possibilities of modern watercolor technique to create realistic images of nature, paying special attention to the physical and optical laws of transparency, reflection and refraction.
Anastasiia Petriaeva
Gallery
New original watercolors
Each painting exists in a single copy, painted with professional pigments on 100% cotton paper.
Recognition
Exhibitions, awards and press
A full list, from the first solo show in 2019 to the most recent award.
Exhibitions, awards and publications
- 2026 — Participated in the international exhibition "Fabriano in Acquarello in Watercolor," Italy. Recognized as a master artist
- 2026 — Invited artist at the online exhibition of the International Watercolor Institute JIWI (Japan)
- 2026 — Participated in the international exhibition "Women Artists," dedicated to International Women's Day, March 8, 2026, IWS SARE gallery, Moscow
- 2025 — Participated in the 4th international exhibition and competition GRAND MASTER, IWS SARE gallery, Moscow
- 2025 — Invited artist at the online exhibition of the International Watercolor Institute JIWI (Japan)
- 2025 — Participated in the International Festival of Art, Culture and Friendship, Art:1 New Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2025 — Honorable Mention from INFLUENCE GALLERY in the art competition "The Power of Color." Work: "A New Day Has Come"
- 2025 — Merit Award, HelwetArt exhibition "The Spirit of Winter"
- 2024 — Participated in the watercolor plein air "Morozova Merchant's House"
- 2024 — Featured in The Art Gallery e-magazine, February issue
- 2024 — Invited artist at the "3rd International Watercolor Art Week," Yuyu, China
- 2024 — One of five winners of the Rockwell Wetlands Action Plan Watercolor Contest, held by the international watercolor brand Rockwell Art.
- 2024 — Invited artist at the "International Watercolor Art Season," Hongcun and Xidi, China
- 2024 — 2nd Olympiart, India: participation and catalog publication
- 2023 — Merit Award, HelwetArt exhibition
- 2023 — Featured in ART-AGENT magazine, No. 6, 2023
- 2022 — Invited artist at the online exhibition of the International Watercolor Institute JIWI (Japan)
- 2022 — Solo exhibition "Symphony of Color," Novouralsk
- 2022 — Featured in the French magazine Pratique des Arts
- 2022 — 3rd place, 1st International Rockwell Competition
- 2022 — 3rd place, international competition, Australia
- Since 2022 — International Cultural Ambassador of Rockwell Art
- 2021 — Participated in the international competition Castra 2021 (Slovenia); work published in the catalog
- 2021 — Invited artist at the 1st International Traveling Art Exhibition in Datong, China
- 2021 — Invited artist at the online exhibition of the International Watercolor Institute JIWI (Japan)
- 2021 — Award, Pyrenees Watercolor Contest, France
- 2021 — 1st and 2nd place, 11th International Competition "Aquarelium"
- 2020 — International Watercolor Art Fair (IWAF), Taipei
- 2020 — "Watercolor Spring" exhibition, Izmailovo Kremlin, Russia
- 2020 — International exhibition "Dance of Color," IWS SARE gallery, Moscow
- 2020 — International exhibition "Dreams Come True," IWS SARE gallery, Moscow
- 2020 — Invited artist at the online exhibition of the International Watercolor Institute JIWI (Japan)
- 2020 — Finalist, 1st International Watercolor Competition "Step by Step" (Poland); work published in the catalog
- 2020 — "Memories of Spring" exhibition, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 — Solo exhibition "With Gratitude in My Heart," Novouralsk
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Watercolor
Original watercolors are painted with highly lightfast pigments on professional cotton paper and shipped worldwide with a certificate of authenticity. The video courses stay with you forever.
