How important are supposedly old-fashioned ideas like virtue or love to the practice of painting? Born in Ukraine, Anna Zaiachkivska studied art and art history before becoming her country’s representative in the Miss World 2013 pageant — an accomplishment that lead directly to an international modelling career, and eventually to New York City. There, Anna took up her brushes again and now dedicates much of her time to the painting of beautiful works of partly-abstract, partly-iconographic art — most of it created, she explains, with a clear mind and a close spiritual connection to the divine.
We spent an afternoon with Anna, watching her paint and talking about the calling she loves.
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