Anna Kushch, 1988, Warsaw Lego, 2018

Acrylic, canvas, 80 x 120 cm

Born in Dnipropetrovsk. Graduate of Dnipropetrovsk National University. Well-known and talented yoga trainer, psychologist and artist, living in Poland for 6 years. Champion of Ukraine in Yoga Sport 2016/17, 2016 European Yoga Sport Champion, founder of her own training method (Cross Yoga, Office Yoga and Psy Yoga). Painter, art animator, participating in many art and art-education projects. She uses her indefatigable energy in many fields. Integrating yoga, psychotherapy and art. Her works are known in Poland and abroad in cooperation with galleries DESA, Stalowa (Warsaw), Sopot Auction House, DNA (Wroclaw). She conducts painting workshops, including at the Psychotherapy and Art Conference organized by the Gestalt Institute in Kyiv. Many well-known people from the world of Ukrainian culture and art have participated in her "Art Therapy." She creates works that are often magical, and so is her magical nature. She is also an accomplished portraitist. Her interest in yoga and the art of meditation (a 2-month internship in Sri Lanka and the acquisition of a YOGA 23 trainer certificate) is reflected in her later works. She is an incredibly versatile and talented artist. This is evidenced by the prizes awarded to her for works in painting techniques that are very different from each other. In Kyiv, an award in a competition of young artists organized by the Pinchuk Art Center for acrylic on canvas, 1st prize in a competition for the poster of the 3rd Klezmer Music and Tradition Festival in Kazimierz Dolny, or winning a competition to create a fresco in the Catherine II Palace in Dnipropetrovsk (design and implementation).