Anna Tsvell is a full-time visual artist and art director focused on abstract figurative and textile art, worked with / was featured by : Gucci, Dior, Tiffany&Co, Adidas Originals, Harper’s Bazaar, Lampoon Magazine, DressX, Winsor & Newton, Art on a postcard (famous charity project), SHOWstudio, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine etc. Anna currently lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.
Fine art
Self-taught, Anna started her art career in 2014 and developed her own distinctive artistic style which makes her paintings extremely recognizable and attractive for the art collectors all over the world. Long curved necks, chaotically combined parts of the body are the main distinctive features of Anna’s remarkable style. Anna invented her own manner of painting hands which also became one of the hallmarks of her style and integral part of her paintings. Anna highlights the main theme of her work — the body, it's new forms and shapes, women's shapes are woven into multiple elegant lines.
Anna works with acrylics, watercolors, ink and digitally, her artworks are sharp and visual attractive, extremely unusual, eye catching, increasing audience reach and impressions. Tsvell’s artworks are unique — that's why Anna is demanded by brands, magazines, influencers and celebrities.
Paintings and drawings by Anna Tsvell are in private collections of musicians, film directors, photographers, art collectors and art lovers all over the world. Anna’s art was exhibited in different art galleries in US, United Kingdom and Europe.
In addition to her active and productive artistic life Anna is working on the development of her personal author's methodology of creating a unique style from the scratch. Also she is a Brand friend (ambassador) of Winsor & Newton, the author of expert articles and master classes about art supplies using.
Artist's statement.
Anna Tsvell is focusing on exploring the theme of human (women mostly) portraiture through its transformation into new visual anatomical forms. The body consists of many smooth lines, figurativeness is hidden and deconstructed. Line and texture play a huge role in Anna’s works, the artist explores the dynamic possibilities and the ways of expression which the line can do, paintings and drawings by Anna Tsvell are dark, intuitive, expressive, hedonistic and melancholic at the same time, they are full of symbols and details which are based on Anna's personal predilections and fixations.
Textile Art
Anna started her fiber art practice in 2017 year in Los Angeles, but it became a constant direction of her art in 2020 year. Anna is creating intuitive process-based fiber artworks inspired by nature textures with a sophisticated touch of dark aesthetics.
Anna’s fiber artworks are always hand embroidered on transparent tulle - she wants to show the importance of seeing the invisible on physical and mental levels both, the back side of Anna’s works is as substantial as the front side, both sides are making the work complete. Black and red are the predominant colors in Anna’s work currently.
Selected collaborations :
Art In Rug (Los Angeles) x Anna Tsvell Unique Limited Edition Rug
Harper's Bazaar Korea - cover art for a special edition issue August 2020
Dior for The Fashionable Lampoon: Saint/Surreal article including Dior pre fall 2018 photoset (April 2018 issue)
The Fashionable Lampoon: the cover (September 2017 issue), the Dot Circle 2017 project
Tiffany & Co: Tiffany City HardWear collection for The Fashionable Lampoon project
GUESS: Denim Day in Rome
Face Factory Paris
Try Merry: Anna’s illustrations as a part of the collective print “We Are The People”
Selected publications:
Harper's Bazaar Korea cover for a special edition issue August 2020
Unseen Sketchbooks (UK) - Interview
Candid Orange (UK) - "Sharing scars with Anna Tsvell" article featured on the main page
Peredvizhnik (leading art supplies store in Russia) - Golden acrylics expert review + an exclusive review about Golden Open slow-drying acrylics
Public talk and testing of Winsor & Newton acrylic paints at Peredvizhnik (leading art supplies store in Russia)
Peredvizhnik (leading art supplies store in Russia) - Da Vinci synthetic brushes expert review
Will Magazine, Issue 3 Attraction Terrestre, July 2019
Brenda Magazine, Issue 3 RED, December 2018
The Art Avenue: focus on (the featured post) and artists catalogue
The Fashionable Lampoon: artworks for Dior, the "Saint/Surreal" article, April 2018 issue
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Issue 020, March 2018, Artist Snapshot
The Fashionable Lampoon Magazine, Cover art for the Issue 10, September 2017
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, June 2017, Art Throbs
Lampoon Magazine, April 2017, The Dot Circle
Volition Magazine May 2017 issue (featured artist at pages 172- 179)
Depeche Mode official Facebook page - one of the Depeche Mode fan takeover
Artospective online art magazine, February 2017
Art for the website of the "Selling Sex In The 21st Century" book by James Tugend
Emboss Magazine, Issue 4, June 2016, cover art and interview
Vivid Fashion and Illustration Magazine, Issue #1, Spring 2016
Glow Project, November 2016
Art Muzeo Magazine, Issue 3, May 2016
“Il cinema di Jim Jarmusch”, book by Umberto Mentana, digital illustration
Selected exhibitions:
April 1 - May 30 2024 - “Threads of Tomorrow”, Museu Têxtil, New Orleans, US
March 24 2024 - “Life’s waiting room” pavilion at The Bombay Beach Biennale, California, US
November 2023 - March 2024 - The Wrong Biennale
October 2023 - December 2023 - Belmont Shore, Long Beach, California, US
August 2022 - September 2022 - “Metafashion”, Nikolskaya Gallery, London, UK
January 2022 - March 2022 - “Fashion Illustration Takes The Spotlight”, Pop Up Museum, Moscow, Russia.
May 2021 - "Garden of Colourful Mists", Haze Gallery, Berlin, Germany
October 2020 - November 2020 - “Triumph of Life”, personal online exhibition
September 2020 - life painting performance for “Нехудожник” project, Leveldva, Moscow, Russia
July 2019 - Old Spitalfields Market ( charity project by Art On A Postcard, Ben Eine as a co-curator ), London, UK
May 2019 - Stony Stratford Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
April 2019 - IZO Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
September 2018 - "Perfect 10" group art show, La Bodega Gallery, San Diego, California, US
May 2018 - Kvartina Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
September 2017 - Milano Fashion Library, Milan, Italy
February 2017 - Chocolate and Art Show,The Vortex, Los Angeles, California, US
January 2017 - Stay Peculiar (Tim Burton tribute art show) - LAM Gallery, Los Angeles, Hollywood, California, US
December 2016 - ARTX Gallery, Long Beach, California, US
November 2016 - co-LAb gallery, Los Angeles, California, US
November 2016 - The Neutra Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, California, US
October 2016 - The Neutra Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, California, US
September 2016 - Manhattan Beach Library, Los Angeles, California, US