About Artist

Katerina Bakulina was born on 9 of April 1986 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, multicultural and multinational city where people embraced diversity in religions, holidays, and customs. This made influence on artist´s works in the strive to unite cultures of the world.

Throughout her childhood, Katerina loved spending all her time with pencils or paints.

As adult for many years, Katerina lived in Dubai, the UAE, where she worked in an international company while also pursuing her skills for art and made significant contribution to the development of culture and literature as award-winning poet. Extensive travelling around the world, visiting and studying unusual countries, like Bangladesh or Peru, and artists continuous spiritual practice in different traditions made impact to the content of her paintings. Arabic culture also influenced her art and deeply touched her heart.

Katerina enrolled in the Barcelona Art Academy, Barcelona, Spain in 2018, where she underwent intensive training in academic drawing and sculpture in the classical Florentine tradition, as well as art history. 

In Mosaic Art School in Ravenna, Italy, Katerina received training from Luciana Notturni, a master with 35 years of experience and the best specialist in this art platform, who taught her the entire process of creating mosaics using the same techniques and tools employed by artists in the Roman and Byzantine eras.

In 2021, Katerina moved from the UAE to Costa Rica. Costa Rica completely immersed her in the creative process, and she had several private and group exhibitions around the country for the last 3 years.