Anna Shkinder
Visual Artist
Anna Shkinder is a visual artist based in Lutsk, Ukraine. She studied at the Lutsk State Art School and the Volyn College of Culture and Arts named after Ihor Stravinsky, and has since developed her artistic practice independently.
Her practice has evolved through several approaches to material and form. In 2021–2023, she worked with plaster and mixed media, creating textured interpretations of natural forms such as river currents, mountain surfaces, sand and retreating waves. Since 2024, she has worked primarily with acrylic on canvas, using diluted pigments and allowing colour to merge and flow across the surface.
Her recent work has moved towards ancient vessels, flowers and symbolic imagery. Alongside her studio practice, Anna teaches art and develops educational and creative projects.
Artist statement
My practice explores the relationship between nature, memory, atmosphere and the emotional meaning we attach to objects.
In my earlier work, I was drawn to natural processes — flowing water, waves, sand, mountains — and to the tension between control and chance. Working with diluted acrylic allows pigments to merge and move almost independently, creating an intuitive process through which I translate sensations rather than depict specific places: warmth of sunlight on skin, a fading sunset, or the feeling of dissolving into a forest or body of water.
More recently, my attention has turned towards antiquity, particularly ancient Greek and Roman vessels. In my series VESSELS, I reinterpret these forms through contemporary painting, combining them with flowers, plants and imagined narratives. I am interested in the vessel as more than an archaeological object: it is something that once held water, wine, offerings, flowers and everyday rituals, and therefore carries traces of human presence.
I imagine each vessel as belonging to an unknown person and holding a story that has been lost to time. Through painting, I give these objects new lives and meanings. I am interested in the possibility of the artwork becoming a contemporary talisman for the home — a quiet object associated with warmth, calm, protection, memory or wellbeing.
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