Pallet Knife Paintings

Her life began in Russia, but her life story as an artist unfolded inside a multicultural family—Cuban, American, and Russian, all woven together.

She has always been creative, yet she never imagined that painting would evolve into becoming an important part of her life. During her mother’s battle with cancer, relatives gifted her painting materials as a form of therapy. After she passed, the office space was transformed into an art studio, and the paint she left behind was put to use. That marked the beginning of her painting journey.

A self-taught painter, she discovered the palette knife as a painting tool and loved it instantly. Painting by means of a palette knife changed everything, opening a world of unlimited, unexpected, and unpredictable results—a creative freedom she had never experienced. She is drawn to the excitement of not knowing what will happen as she uses it, and to the surprise of what emerges on the canvas. The thrill of the unknown, and the spontaneity and beauty that emerge from her creative process, keep her returning to the canvas again and again, always finding new images to express.