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The Artist Behind the Art
Some artists paint to be seen. Yana Movchan paints to remember — and to make you feel something you didn't know you'd forgotten.
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1971 and trained at the Ukrainian Art Academy, Yana earned the Golden Fund Prize — the Academy's highest honour — before her work had even crossed a border. It would cross many. Exhibitions in Ukraine, Prague, London, and Canada followed. Critics reached for the names of masters to describe what they saw: Velasquez. Colville. Magritte. Yana simply kept painting.
A Journey Told in Light and Colour
Her canvases are quiet, but they hold entire worlds. A figure caught mid-thought. A still life that breathes. Light that falls the way memory does — softly, selectively, with intention.
In 2007, 2012, and 2021, American Art Collector chose her work for its cover — not once as a discovery, but three times as a standard. In 2020, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus commissioned her designs, bringing her vision into the most discerning homes in North America. The Glenn Gould Foundation trusted her with a commemorative portrait — a testament to the weight her work carries.
Now based in Halifax, Canada, Yana continues to paint from a place of deep stillness and hard-won craft.
Art You Can Live With
Every scarf, pillow, and print in this collection begins with an original painting. Not a digital illustration. Not a licensed pattern. A painting — made by hand, in a studio, by an artist who has spent decades learning how light behaves and why it matters.
When you bring one of these pieces into your home, you're not buying décor. You're acquiring a fragment of an original work — reproduced with the same care and precision that Yana brings to every brushstroke. Each edition is limited. Each piece is numbered. Once they're gone, they're gone.
This is what it means to own art that lives with you.
Explore the Collections
Yana's paintings are the beginning. The scarves, the pillows, the prints — these are how her work finds its way into your everyday life, without losing any of its power.