About
Austin, TX — 2025
Katiyana Nova is a Bulgarian-Greek artist based in Austin whose work explores the unspoken mess of identity, growth, and transformation. Through bold textures of oil, acrylic, and plaster, she builds faces and forms that hover between recognition and abstraction — meditations on what it means to become.
Process
The Faces
Each piece is created through intuition rather than intention — the final face is never known until it reveals itself. With oil, between twenty and thirty layers are applied; with acrylic, five to fifteen. The faces are not portraits, but reflections of emotion, memory, and transformation.
Sculpture
Plaster-soaked fabric is applied to a live model, forming a cast that captures the body's contours. Once dried, the piece is removed and sewn into canvas, uniting sculpture and painting in one form.
