CONTEMPORARY FLORAL PAINTINGS by Anastassia Skopp
Large-scale textured artworks collected internationally.
Original mixed media paintings on linen and cotton canvas.
Available worldwide.
ANASTASSIA SKOPP — Artist Statement
The studio is where the noise stops.
Before I enter, I am a mother of two daughters, a wife, a person carrying the weight of ordinary life — worries about the future, about family, about everything that waits outside the door.
But somewhere between stretching the linen — I only use pure linen or heavy cotton, fabrics so alive you want to run your hand across them before a single brushstroke — and mixing the first colours, something shifts. The thoughts don't stop all at once. They slow. Then slow further. And by the time the palette knife reaches the canvas and the first petal takes shape, they are simply gone.
I have been a student of Eckhart Tolle since 2017. His teaching didn't give me a philosophy. It gave me a practice. And that practice, I discovered, lives most naturally in paint. In 2019, I had the rare gift of attending his three-day retreat here in Germany. It was an experience that cannot be put into words.
Each flower I build with the palette knife is not planned. It arrives. The colour was chosen earlier, yes — but the petal itself happens in the Now. There is no past in that gesture. No future. Only the resistance of linen, the weight of paint, and the delicate silence that follows when the thinking mind finally steps aside.
This is what I paint. Not flowers. Not gardens. Not decoration for beautiful rooms — though I hope they bring beauty too.
I paint the moment when a person comes back to themselves.
If you feel something standing in front of one of these works — a kind of stillness, an exhale you didn't know you were holding — then you already understand what they are made of.
International Exhibitions:
2026, Mai - Affordable Art Fair Austin
2025, April - Group exhibition "Flora: The Art of Blooming", Artseeker Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
2024, Oktober - Art exhibition "Exploring the Beauty", Art Voyage Gallery, Zofingen, Switzerland
2024, February - Art exhibition "Coming and Going", Gaudi Galeria, Madrid, Spain
2024, January - International Art Fair, Paris Art Salon, Paris, France
2023, December - "Woman: Balancing Our World" at the Mora Museum, New York, USA
2023, October - International Art Exhibition “Rebirth”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Starnberg, Germany
2023, October - International Art Fair “Art Innsbruck”, Austria
2023, August - International Art Fair, "Art Monaco", Monte-Carlo, Monaco
2023, Mai - EOS Laboratorio delle Arti, "Emozioni in Mostra", La Galleria Sant'Andrea, Parma, Italy
2023, Mai - Collins Avenue in Miami, "Just Summer On My Mind", Miami, USA
2023, March - VERNICE Art Fair, BIANCOSCURO Art Exhibition, Forli, Italy
2023, January - International Art Fair, Paris Art Salon, Paris, France
2022, Dezember - "Golden Duck" Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022, November - EOS Laboratorio delle Arti, Parma, Italy
2022, November -ARTBOX.PROJECT Miami 3.0 , Miami, USA
2022, October - ARTBOX.PROJECT Palma 1.0, Palma de Mallorca, Spain - Semi-Finalist
2022, August - ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 4.0, Zug, Switzerland
2022, May - The State Darwin Museum, "Why does Android need nature?" Moscow, Russia
2022, May - BIENNALE ART EXPO / ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0, Venice, Italy
2022, February - ARTBOX.PROJECT World 2.0, URBANSIDE Gallery Zurich, Switzerland
2021, December - The largest project in the history of NFT art, Nikas Safronov`s charity project "Artists for Artists"
2021, December - Luxemburger Art Prize organized by the Pinacotheque, Certificate as an official recognition from the Museum to artist participants whose merit and artistic talent have been specifically noted
2021, December - M.A.D.S. Digital Gallery - international contemporary art group exhibition “Sacrifice”, Milan, Italy and Fuerteventura, Spain
2014 - Individual Exhibition by KSL3, Germany, Essen
2005 - Contract with the Cologne/Germany art gallery Canvasa
PUBLICATIONS:
2023 - "Summer On My Mind" https://glamourbuff.com/popular/just-summer-on-my-mind-art-exhibition/
2022 - ARTIST TALK Magazine, November 2022, p. 71
2022 - ARTBOX Projects Gallery “Artist Catalog Anastassia Skopp”, Zug, Switzerland