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​Irina Kozyrevitch is a Sydney based watercolour artist
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Recent exhibitions:
Ku Rin Gai AS Award Exhibition - St. Ives, July 2022 - Second Prize - Spirit of Ku Rin Gai
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Ku Rin Gai AS Exhibition - St. Ives, March 2022
Finalist Art of Sydney 2020 (Maritime musem)
Ku Rin Gai AS Award Exhibition - St. Ives, 2020
MARS Exhibition - POWH, Randwick
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I try to play with different mediums, but watercolour is my first and true love. I love its fluidity, its unpredictable nature, its elusive light. I love how watercolor embraces the elements  - air, water, light, making them work together. There is no going back with watercolour, and it also  what fascinates me.  Win or fail in every brushstroke.
I always paint to the music: jazz, classics, flamenco, bossa nova, blues - and watercolour for me is a perfect medium to reflect it, celebrating the  atmosphere, the music, the light, the colour.

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​Born in Russia, I moved to Australia years ago. I live and work in Sydney, it's the love from the first sight, and the endless source of inspiration in any season.
​My formal education is not in art area, but my two masters degree, in Media and in IT, help me to find the strong logic and beautiful interconnections in all visual aspects of the world, and to have a consistency and systematic approach in my persuading the art learning path. 
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For a few years I study watercolour attending art classes in Ku Ring Gai Art Centre, and every summer I attend Mitchell School of Arts in Bathurst, using every opportunity to learn from the Australian best artists.  I believe in the inspiration and the talent, but I also believe in strong technique and experience behind each spontaneous brushstroke. 

I travel extensively exploring the country, and the more I travel the more I love it, from shores of Strahan (Tas) to lush tropics of Townsville (QLD), and from Glenn Innes golden frosty mornings to shiny Milky Way above Simpson's desert. 
I was stricken by the beauty of the country, and I started painting here in Australia trying to express my love and admiration for this country.  Watercolour is my favourite medium though I also love the energy and power of oils, and fragile delicacy of pastels, and also trying myself in graphics, painting and sketching every possible moment.
Travel and music are my main inspiration sources, I travel across Australia, as well as exploring the world, trying to understand and express all I see around, seing the beauty in all shapes and forms. 
Favourite Works