Arina Apostolova is from beautiful old city Odessa, Ukraine. When the war in Ukraine is begun Arina decided to move to Australia, so currently she is based in Australia, traveling around and collecting inspirations from the environment here. Her interest in art started from the graduation at architect academy in 2007 where she learnt academic drawing and basic painting techniques, refining the knowledge in color theory, perspective and composition.
As a professional full time artist Arina started relatively recently, basically from the big art project named “Sacred Geometry” which was successfully displayed at the local exhibition by UNION- architect studio in Shanghai in April 2021.
Arina typically works and keeps exploring the oil paints on the canvases of various sizes. Within her own body of work, she classifies the typy of paintings as "Composite Realism", because they involve elements of intense realism combined with abstract patterns and surrealistic dream-like scenes and symbolic images. This is a great way to interweave arcane concepts in the own way such as philosophy, the depths of mind, theories of creation, and the assorted pursuits of science with more accessible.
Since end of 2021 Arina started her career as a contemporary mural artist in public spaces with her own creative design which can become part of the community and environment.
Arina has been participating in solo and group exhibitions in China and her artworks are in private collections.
Arina says that there is always something more to learn as an artist. She is not going to stop learning art, color, anatomy, light, creativity and humans nature. So she keeps sketching, finding new concepts and ideas for drawing and painting.