Victoria Kitanov artist & author of Claim Your Space: A Beginners Guide to Create Your Own Artist Sanctuary (2022)

Victoria Kitanov is a multi-award-winning artist, author, and sculptor, with a passion for helping people tap into their creative core for mindful wellbeing, and to help them fulfil their creative potential.

An artist of renown in her own right, Victoria paints for the pure pleasure of doing so, and for privately commissioned artworks.

Victoria has a strong background in commercial art and children’s book illustration, ultimately creating a name for herself as the official re-illustrator of May Gibbs’ iconic gum nut babies under the May Gibbs Trade Mark in the 1990s. Prior to leaving her profession in 1998, she was frequently invited to run Illustration demonstrations in schools, entertaining thousands of children with on-the-spot sketching and lots of audience participation and has made regular guest appearances at Children’s Book Week and related events.

In addition to her artistic side, Victoria has enjoyed a successful career in the Library and Information Industry, the Australian Public Service with the Department of Defence, and as a Tour Guide at The Australian War Memorial.  Employed for 12 years with the Royal Australian Navy in library, information, history, and archives, ultimately propelled Victoria toward renown as a serious marine painter.

Victoria is the founder of Entrée to Arts Pty Ltd, Victoria Kitanov Fine Art, and Victoria Hall Scone. She was recently invited to facilitate a 2-day art workshop: Wonderful Watercolour by Scone Arts & Crafts and now runs art classes, workshops, and creative retreats at her 19^th-century home, Victoria Hall Scone (formerly The Mechanics Institute School of Arts, 1972-1916), in the beautiful Upper Hunter region of New South Wales.

Victoria is the author of Claim Your Space: A Beginners Guide to Create Your Own Artist Sanctuary (ISBN 9781922714633) published in 2022.

Recent exhibitions featuring Victoria’s art have included:

My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival: Model Boat Display, Hobart, Tasmania. Co-exhibit with model boat craftsman, David Glasson (February 2023)

Scone Arts & Crafts Incorporated, Members Art Exhibition (Horse Week, May 2022)

Australian Society of Marine Artists Silver Anniversary National Online Exhibition (October-November 2021)

Australian Society of Marine Artists National Marine Art Exhibition: Seas of Change, The Royal Art Society, Lavender Bay Gallery (October 2021)

M.A.D.S. Milano International Art, Sound & Light Exhibition, Milan, Italy. Artwork exhibited: ‘Heading In: Svitzer Tug Waratah on Sydney Harbour’: https://www.madsgallery.art/item/3cd515be-87c5-4ade-94a9-bd70063c7176/artwork/heading-in%3A-svitzer-tug-waratah-on-sydney-harbour

Light Space Time 16^th International Online Solo Art Exhibition Series Art Competition (Solo Artist: Victoria Kitanov, 1 of only 4 artists selected, December 2020-January 2021)

The Mission to Seafarers 2020 Maritime Art Awards and exhibition, The Relationship of Humanity to the Sea, Melbourne, Victoria (October 2020)

Contemporary Art Gallery Online, 2020 All Water / Seascape Theme, 3^rd Place for Workboat Polaris under Pyrmont Bridge (August 2020)

Light Space Time 10^th Animals International Online Art Exhibition, Special Recognition Category for Excellence in Art (August 2020)

Light Space Time 10^th Seascapes International Online Art Exhibition, 9^th Place for Heading in: Svitzer Tug Waratah on Sydney Harbour (June 2020)

My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Model Boat Display, Hobart, Tasmania. Co-exhibit with model boat craftsman, David Glasson (February 2019)

Australian Society of Marine Artists, National Marine Art Exhibition: Marine Art Today, Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove (September 2018)

My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival: Model Boat Display, Hobart, Tasmania. Co-exhibit with modelmaker & craftsman, David Glasson (February 2017)

Classic & Wooden Boat Festival, Australian National Maritime Museum, Pyrmont Bay, Sydney, NSW. Co-exhibit with model boat craftsman, David Glasson (April 2018)

RAW Natural Born Artists Event: RAW Transcend, Sydney, New South Wales (2018)

Classic & Wooden Boat Festival, Lady Denman Maritime Museum, Jervis Bay, New South Wales. Co-exhibit with model boat craftsman, David Glasson (November 2017)

RAW Natural Born Artists Event: RAW Visionary, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (2015)

RANDOM Art Exhibition, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (2015)