Varvara Voetskova (b. 1985, Moscow/USSR) is a visual artist who works in mixed drawing and painting mediums. In her work, she gives preference to paints and substrates she prepared or altered by hand in her studio. Oil, earth pigments, paper, wood, stone, and linen are among the materials she employs. The tactilely responsive and gracefully aging they are appreciated by Varvara for their natural origin, history, and "breathing" qualities. As a person who was raised in a continuously changing social and economic environment of post-Soviet Russia, Varvara is drawn to the exploration of the timeless, archetypical, and cyclic in human nature that forms fate. In her work, she investigates the repetitiveness and predictability of a person's behavior that is expressed through habitual: thoughts, gestures, and activities. A graduate of a drama school, she also examines the possibility of translating absurd, satire, tragedy, and tragicomedy theater genres into her painting language. An application of directing methods lets Varvars create compositions where the main protagonist is often a staged space itself or an atmosphere of it. Meantime, micro and macro daily events of a person's life are typically just forms of visual expression taken from her memory.