I am a London-based visual artist working primarily in black and white ink on paper. My practice explores movement, emotional intensity, impermanence, environmental fragility, and transformation through a gestural visual language I call Fieriness. Balancing abstraction and figuration, I fashion emotionally charged landscapes shaped by oceans, whales, conflict, memory, urban turbulence, and ecological vulnerability. Water and storm forms recur as symbols of resilience, collective consciousness, and planetary instability. My monochrome approach lets movement, atmosphere, and psychological tension speak directly; color appears only when it carries additional emotional or conceptual significance. In my studio, ink becomes both material and metaphor — flowing like water, collapsing like architecture, or dispersing like memory. My practice traverses a spectrum from abstraction to figuration and is driven by a deep curiosity about how we endure and transform in the face of environmental change and human conflict.

Maryna Gradnova

I am a London-based visual artist working primarily in black and white ink on paper. My practice explores movement, emotional intensity, impermanence, environmental fragility, and transformation through a gestural visual language I call Fieriness. Balancing abstraction and figuration, I fashion emotionally charged landscapes shaped by oceans, whales, conflict, memory, urban turbulence, and ecological vulnerability. Water and storm forms recur as symbols of resilience, collective consciousness, and planetary instability. My monochrome approach lets movement, atmosphere, and psychological tension speak directly; color appears only when it carries additional emotional or conceptual significance. In my studio, ink becomes both material and metaphor — flowing like water, collapsing like architecture, or dispersing like memory. My practice traverses a spectrum from abstraction to figuration and is driven by a deep curiosity about how we endure and transform in the face of environmental change and human conflict.

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I am a London-based visual artist working primarily in black and white ink on paper. My practice explores movement, emotional intensity, impermanence, environmental fragility, and transformation through a gestural visual language I call Fieriness. Balancing abstraction and figuration, I fashion emotionally charged landscapes shaped by oceans, whales, conflict, memory, urban turbulence, and ecological vulnerability. Water and storm forms recur as symbols of resilience, collective consciousness, and planetary instability. My monochrome approach lets movement, atmosphere, and psychological tension speak directly; color appears only when it carries additional emotional or conceptual significance.

In my studio, ink becomes both material and metaphor — flowing like water, collapsing like architecture, or dispersing like memory. My practice traverses a spectrum from abstraction to figuration and is driven by a deep curiosity about how we endure and transform in the face of environmental change and human conflict.

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French
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Education

Master’s Degree in Decorative & Applied Arts at Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Ukraine
January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2005
French Language and Literature (C1 CECRL) at Sorbonne Université, France
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024

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Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services, Other