Natasha Zhukova
About Natasha Zhukova
Natasha Zhukova (she/her) is a contemporary artist working with encaustic painting and mixed media. Born in Moscow, she currently lives and works in Serbia. She graduated with honours from the Faculty of Art and Graphics at Moscow State Pedagogical University.
She has been working with encaustic since 2013 and has developed her own authorial approach based on long-term artistic practice and research into the expressive potential of wax. She teaches encaustic painting in her studio and online school, sharing a methodology that emphasizes attentiveness to material, process, and lived experience.
Her artistic practice explores the emotional and sensory expressiveness of materials through texture, layering, and the interaction between figurative elements and abstraction. Texture functions as a carrier of meaning, layers act as a metaphor for inner experience, and colour is treated as an emotional field rather than a descriptive tool. Central to her approach is a dialogue with the material, acceptance of unpredictability, and working in the space between control and letting go.
Natasha is the author of two books on decorative and mixed media techniques, including projects that integrate encaustic into mixed media practice.
For her, encaustic and mixed media become a way to slow down, listen to the material, and allow the image to emerge gradually. Wax fixes a moment while leaving space to breathe. Each work is not an illustration, but a lived experience.
She has participated in numerous international exhibitions in Europe and Canada and is a recipient of awards in juried exhibitions.
Post-Conference Workshop