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Hi, my name is Sophia,Â
I am a visual artist, working primarily in watercolor and mixed-media art.
My art is my way to survive in a material world since very beginning of my life. I felt like I’m on a verge between the world of reality and spiritual levels of my existence. Art creation has turned to be my way of staying connected to the material world that allows me to live normal life and to be part of the community.
My work is a reflection of the connections between real world and invisible spiritual world through lenses of my self-discovery endless process. I’m drawn to the intersection between the abstract and the concrete, the intangible and the tangible. Through my work, I aim to invite the viewer into the world that is both familiar and unfamiliar, a world that challenges their perception and encourages them to explore their own relationships with reality.
As world is extremely versatile I feel right to use wide range of medias and materials, therefore I use mixed media to create my art works. I love to use watercolor and flowing techniques of acrylic to start the work and then to add dry materials in intuitive painting process which resemble kind of meditation and connection to the spirit. This allows to create my own visual language which is natural continue of my philosophy and of my perception of connections within universe, nature, humans and between every single part of the world.
Composition is one of my interests of self and art exploration process. Space is one of the main visual components of the real world. It is able to change depending on time, seasons, circumstances, objects placements, emotions, experience of viewer. The processes of space changing fascinate me and I just can’t ignore this in my art and self exploration journey.
Ultimately, my art creating the space on a verge between visual and not visible world, it is a journey of the human experience and an invitation to engage with the world in a more conscious way.
I am a huge fan of Japanese culture and literature, love nature, gardening and I really love animals, I own a cat, a dog and a lizard.
Sophia Rodionov (b. 1881 Tallin, Estonia) is a visual artist based in lsrael, working primarily in watercolor and mixed-media art. Sophia grew up in a family of scientists and thought to devote her life to science when she entered the chemical faculty of the Technion (lsrael lnstitute). But in a process of studying, she realized that art actually took up most of her life and decided radically to change all the plans. She received her BFA (Visual Arts) from Haifa University in 2006.
With background in East-Asian art and philosophy studies, her paintings draw from experiences and impressions of her own life through Japanese culture concept of pause or in quantum science words - antimatter of Universe interpretation. Sophia's interest and deep love to nature impacting her subject's choice and artistic language in usage of organic shapes and forms סח a verge of reality and abstractions. Sophia believes that art is reflection of other fields of human reality both visible and invisible while art is also the language which allows to think and create new essences.
Since 2019 Sophia is co representative of IWS (lnternational Watercolor Society) of lsrael team participating and hosting watercolor events in lsrael, online and internationally. Her watercolor artworks has been widely exhibited worldwide in Europe, United States and Japan.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025, Fabriano in Aquarello, lnternational Watercolor Festival, ltaly,
lsrael representative group member
2024, Fabriano in Aquarello, lnternational Watercolor Festival, ltaly, lsrael representative group member
2023, Fabriano in Aquarello, lnternational Watercolor Festival, ltaly, lsrael representative group member
2022, Fabriano in Aquarello, lnternational Watercolor Festival, ltaly, lsrael representative group member
2021, lnternational Watercolor Show IWS, lndia, lsrael
representative group member
2020, lnternational Biennale of Watercolor, Your Jdentity Through Watercolor, Poland
2020, lnternational Watercolor Exhibition IWS, Albi, France
2020, JIWI -Japan lnternational Watercolor וnstitute וnvited
Watercolor Master, Exhibition of Exce/lent Painting, Japan.
2020, lnternational Traveling Exhibition IWS, Poland and Ukraine.
2020, Annual Watercolor Exhibition of IWS lsrael, Kfar-Saba Municipal Gallery, lsrael
2019, Fabriano in Aquarello, lnternational Watercolor Festival, ltaly, lsrael representative group member
2019, Varna lnternational Watercolor Triannale, Bulgaria
2019, "Dance of Flowers" Exhibition, Sare Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017, Annual Exhibition of NWS (National Watercolor Society),
Pittsburgh PA, United States
2016, Group Exhibition of Western Artists, Monoco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008, Afula Contemporary Art Gallery, lsrael
2008, "Trees", Gallerina Art Gallery, Bat-Shlomo lsrael
2006, Exhibition of BFA projects, "The Red", Haifa University, lsrael
AWARDS
ABU RAWASH PRIZE
2019, Appreciation Award, lnternational Waterco/or Contest
JACKSON'S ART PRIZE
2018, First Place in Summer Seascapes and Landscape
Waterco/or Competition
JURY AWARD
2017, Watercolor Competition by Artists Magazine, United
States
PUBLICATIONS
2017, SouthWest Art Magazine, "Petaline" award publication,
United States
2019, IWS G/obe Magazine featuring artwork "Maya in a Blue
Swimwear" from collection "Banana-Fish
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