Yelena Krakova

I’m a self-taught artist working primarily in oil and acrylic, painting waterscapes and coastlines shaped by the quiet places that make up my childhood memories.

My pieces are about moments made in familiar, quiet places along endless shorelines steeped in carefree summers. I chase capturing these memories in what I paint as a way of holding onto what those places stir and leave behind.

I hope the nostalgic feeling in each painting finds something familiar in others, a place, a sense of longing and offers a way to bring a little of that feeling home. Created to be lived with and returned to, every painting is an original, thoughtfully framed and ready to hang.