About the artist

Anastasiia Petriaeva

Watercolour artist · born 1992 · Rockwell Art ambassador

A practicing watercolour artist, participant and winner of international exhibitions and competitions, and the author of video courses on watercolour technique that have been translated into several languages.

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Biography

A practice built on water and light

Born in 1992 in Russia. Graduated with honours from the Academy of Architecture and Art with a degree in industrial design — composition, colour and drawing learned properly, and then turned towards watercolour.

Since 2022 I have been an international cultural ambassador of the Canadian paint brand Rockwell Art. My video courses are popular with watercolour lovers around the world and have been translated into several languages.

Original works are in private collections in Russia, Canada, the USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, China and Australia.

My main genre is landscape — the landscape as a state, with an emphasis on the positive emotions that contemplation of nature evokes: transparency of water, reflections, the play of light in the clouds.

21Video courses

8+Countries with works in private collections

19Exhibitions, awards and publications

Artist statement

Watercolour as a kind of meditation

I romanticise the moments when a person is happy simply because they see the incredible, breathtaking colour of turquoise water.

In my watercolour landscapes I try to capture the images of nature that bring bright, positive emotions — those culminating moments of contemplation: the childlike delight of stepping into clear water and looking at the iridescent stones under it. I think the ability to admire nature is part of human nature.

I try to understand the scale of a person in the context of the world, and to feel the continuity of the many generations who admired — and will admire after us — the same things: the sky, the play of light in the clouds, sea waves, the transparency of water. That connection is an anchor that brings us back to ourselves, because life on this planet began in water.

My goal is to help a person slow down and feel the sublime, harmonious state that is so lacking in the bustle and stress of big cities. I use the expressive possibilities of modern watercolour technique to create realistic images of nature, paying particular attention to the physical and optical laws behind transparency, reflections and refraction.

Anastasiia Petriaeva

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