Yana Art

Yana Stajno is a London-based artist, acupuncturist and writer. She was born in Zimbabwe of French and Polish parents and grew up in Southern Africa.

Her painting style is expressionist and personal; her themes: the narratives inhabiting landscapes, figures or still lives.

“My desire to express myself in paint came mostly from my mother, an artist silenced by the constraints on women after the Second World War. Like many contemporary women, I feel I have to continue where my mother left off.

My paintings are coloured by the heart-breaking vibrancy of the huge Southern African landscapes where I grew up. I imbue them with an intimacy learnt in my work with the people of this great, multi-cultural, teeming city.