Hello!
I'm Anastasia Mamoshina, аka Youkki
My work has two favourite themes, urban and marine watercolour sketches. In 2022 a sketch of Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg was included in the book The World of Urban Sketching.
My preferred materials are ink, watercolour, pastels, markers, graphite. The style is a temperamental watercolour modern interpretation of reality.
I am a cheerful person with a sense of humour and a keen polyglot. I speak English, Spanish and Portuguese and am learning Latin.
I love creating contrasts, playing with empty space in a drawing and juxtaposing textures. Each sketch is a small challenge and a great inspiration.
In 2017-2022, I headed the St Petersburg branch of the international non-profit organisation Urban Sketchers, which has offices in hundreds of major cities around the world. This is a community of urban artists, professionals and amateurs, united by a passion for street sketching. In 2019, under my leadership, the first Russian Festival of Urban Sketchers was held, with guests from 16 cities of Russia and 7 countries of the world.
I am a speaker at various art festivals and conferences, a participant in personal and collective exhibitions, an art blogger with more than
32 thousand followers from all over the world, organiser of original sketch tours to Europe (Lisbon in 2018 and Barcelona in 2019).
In 2017 my first personal exhibition took place at the Moscow Museum of Automobile History. In 2020 - the second personal exhibition at the St. Petersburg "Unified Document Center". I also took part in various collective exhibitions in art spaces, the Mining University, the St. Petersburg Opera, libraries and cafes in St. Petersburg.
My works are in private collections from Canada to Sri Lanka and South Africa.
July,. demo at Baltic Sketching Festival, Riga, Latvia
March, Urban Sketchers group exhibition. Bunker Coffee, St Petersburg
January, Urban Sketchers group exhibition. Art space "Nevskaya Palitra", St. Petersburg
Art Space "Nevskaya Palitra", St. Petersburg
February-March, Personal exhibition "Watercolour Journey through Europe". United Document Centre, St Petersburg
September, organisation of the first all-Russian urban sketchers' meeting USK RUSSIA, St. Petersburg
May, group exhibition "Petersburg through the eyes of urban sketchers". Library on Stremyannaya Street, St. Petersburg
апрель, Barcelona, Spain, sketch tour, organiser and teacher
September, Lisbon, Portugal, sketch tour, organiser and teacher
March-September, Solo exhibition "10 countries, 14 cities". Museum of Automobile Stories, Moscow
March, Demo. Time to Draw Festival, St. Petersburg.
You can ask questions, purchase artwork, or order a painting by mailing info@youkki.com or on social networks
You can ask questions, purchase artwork, or order a painting by mailing info@youkki.com or on social networks