Yana KornArtist & painter

40 × 50 cm · acrylic on canvas

This painting seems made for sunlight. It bathes in it, changes, and reveals new shades. Light carries on the artist’s work.

I look at it and am surprised every time: the canvas is the same, but the impression has changed. Today it holds so much warm, generous joy that I want to save some for a cloudy day.

40 × 50 cm · acrylic on canvas board

Or “I Have Always Known How to Fly”.

Sometimes you recognise freedom before you dare to take a step. Everything around you is the same, yet the old boundaries already feel too narrow.

I painted this work thinking about the courage to trust yourself. I wanted to give colour and movement room to spread, to capture the moment when pent-up energy finally finds its way out.

Or perhaps the wings have been with us all along?

40 × 50 cm · acrylic on canvas

Cats are remarkably true to themselves. After so many years alongside people, they still keep their own rhythm, independent spirit, and mystery. Who has adapted to whom is still an open question.

I wanted to paint a cat that is in no hurry and has nothing to prove. A black silhouette, sunny yellow, and the quiet confidence of someone who knows she is in charge.

You look at her and think: perhaps some things can wait.

40 × 50 cm · acrylic on canvas · 2026

I think about a strength in which tenderness remains alive. About the ability to endure a great deal and still keep your warmth.

What matters to me in this work is the wholeness of the image: resilience and softness exist side by side, complementing each other. Sometimes it is precisely this closeness that lets you recognise something deeply personal in a painting.

Acrylic on canvas

The mood of colour: rain on glass.

Your eyes follow the streams of water. The outlines beyond the window blur, and your thoughts lose their haste. You want to throw the window open and breathe in that freshness.

I painted it wanting to hold on to the moment when rain seems to wash everything around us and breathing becomes easier.

Wash, water, wash all sorrows away.

Acrylic on canvas · 2026

Beyond the visible world, the soul’s journey begins.

This painting was inspired by Edmund Shklyarsky’s song with the band Piknik, “To Fly Beyond the Forests and Mountains”.

Some music leaves you living in its world long after it ends. I wanted to carry that sound on through paint, to express the pull of the unknown, of what lies beyond the familiar horizon.

What might a colour sound like if it had a voice? That question stayed with me as I worked.