Collection: Anna Kutishcheva

Anna Kutishcheva graduated from Sheridan College's Advanced Illustration program. Anna is a freelance illustrator, writer, and fine artist; her illustrations and paintings have appeared in MacLean’s, Ocala Style, Niagara Life, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, Arabella, and Canadian Brushstroke magazines. She won numerous awards, including Society of Canadian Artists’ Antoinette Stevens Award for Best Acrylic Painting In The Show and Award of Merit, Judges Choice Award, Kaleidoscope of Arts in Burlington Art Gallery, People’s Choice Award, Art Gallery of Pee, and Third Place Award at Landscapes Exhibition, Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery.

She was a Finalist of the Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 and 

2022 Finalist in the16th Art Renewal Center Salon

Anna loves the outdoors. She spent most of her childhood fishing, boating, and hiking numerous trails in the woods and meadows. She is trying to capture the ever-changing shapes of nature, creating a multi-layered, breeze-like landscape - the reality of dreams and stories. 

“I work quickly and emotionally; usually, finding the right mood, light, and state of balance takes much longer than painting itself. North American nature, its unique unspoiled magic, is my constant source of inspiration. The ancient way - feeling your way through nature: shapes of trees and rocks, shadows and lights - gives an excellent opportunity to express your soul. One day and place it’s cheerful, another - miserable and angry, but it's always glorious.”

Anna paints in acrylic and has exhibited her works in Canada, the USA, and  Europe.

Affiliations

Elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists

Associate (AFCA) member of the Federation of Canadian Artists

“Anna Kutishcheva is a painter well known for her ability to convey significant depth within the field of landscape painting...  Her compositions are extremely well rendered, but it is her celebration of tone and hue that invoke melodrama. Her pieces, not unlike the landscapes of the early Canadian masters, leave us in awe of the sublime forces that exist within nature... she pushes past the picturesque into territory that refuses to remain purely decorative. Her technical objectivity belies the heavy symbolism in her works; this tension is the force that keeps her audience rapt with attention as if each sequential piece promises to reveal a touch more on the mystery of the Canadian landscape.” (Cole Swanson, Curator, Living Arts Center, Mississauga)