Anya Kashina, Silk Flowers, 2023, monotype collage pasted on primed wood panel in artist frame, 21x16x3.5cm

Anya Kashina is a Russian-born, British artist who lives and works in London. She makes paintings and works on paper that are rooted in abstraction. Through the use of mark, colour and scale she creates invented spaces and visually articulates the feelings associated with looking at them. She holds a BA from the University of Leeds and a training qualification from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after VI Surikov. She has shown in numerous group shows in London including at the Saatchi Gallery in 2018 and her work is held in private collections in the UK, USA, Russia and France.

Anya’s recent series of paintings and works on paper are often born from distant visions and memories of her grandmother’s dacha in Yaroslavl, Russia. It is a place that she returns to again and again in her work as an attempt to connect to her homeland that she left in childhood and to the histories held in the worked soil.