miss masha d’yans

Meet Masha D’yans, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia.  She creates magical watercolor images that transport you to a fairytale-like world.

catching fireflies carried some of her card designs a few years ago and as I was strolling through Target the other day, I spotted her distinct style on a very cool artsy tee…  and sure enough, they were designed by her for Target!   

Her bio reads, "Masha moved to the U.S. when she was 14. After high school, which was spent following her artistic muse, she gained admission to the fine arts program at Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art in New York where she studied painting, printmaking and graphic design.

Feeling that so much art was lost in commerce, and, well, because she wanted to do what she loved, in 2002 Masha launched a greeting card company based on her own watercolors.  Her playful, sensitive, colorful and tactile painting style draws on a plethora of inspirations including fashion, animation, calligraphy, Japanese art, nature and, of course, Russian fairy tales. Whimsical and sophisticated, her themes are evocative of a child’s imagination: euphoric abandon, everyday mystery, and the beauty of imperfection."

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