Varvara Voetskova (b. 1985, Moscow/USSR) is a visual artist who works in drawing and painting mediums. Oil paint, tempera, graphite, and acrylic are among the traditional and modern art materials she employs.  As a person who was raised in a continuously changing social and economic environment of Post-Soviet Russia, Varvara is drawn to the timelessness of Sacred art of various origins, from icons to architecture. Another important source of inspiration and discovery of new meanings for her is the literature of absurd and satire. A graduate of a school of drama, she brought her interest in working with three-dimensional space on stage "to directing" her two-dimensional "plays" on linen, gesso, stone, and paper. In her work, Varvara examines human nature and the history of humankind as they both manifest themselves in anecdotic, folly, and tragical scenes of everyday life, cyclic happenings, archetypal characters, mythologies, and games.