The Sand-Art Creative Agency cooperates with artists from around the world. Trained in modern and classic art forms, they are not only able to paint unique, detailed portraits and landscapes in sand, but also complicated technical devices or demanding architecture. Their light and delicate hands create magical stories. Every painting is an individual masterpiece.
The Sand Art Creative Agency offers emotional and personalised sand painting live performances, Sand Art videos and light painting for various events.
Our award-winning sand animation artist Ms. Khairullina Alina is a graduate of the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University.
In early 2010 Alina started her career as a professional sand animation artist, sharing the beauty, uniqueness, and refinement of this art with spectators, clients, and students around the world. More than 2000 sand animation videos and more than 1000 live sand animation performances on various stages worldwide are accomplished by the talented artist. Alina is not only producing exclusive sand animation masterpieces for various occasions but is also sharing her knowledge and skills. She is the manager of an international sand animation online school for adults as well as the founder of her own studio of sand animation for children.
Besides that, Alina participated in numerous international exhibitions called « Out of time » and created outstanding sand animation videos in Germany, France, Israel, Turkey, Japan, and United States. Moreover, for over 5 years Alina is organizing a very magical children’s sand animation festival called « Magic ».
Her active contribution and recognition are not over there. In 2019 Alina organized a famous international sand animation festival « Dune 2019 », where artists from all over the world demonstrated a world-class level of excellence in sand animation.
In addition, Alina is the 2nd winner of the 5th national youth forum, where her efforts and creativity took her to the highest-ranked artist level and was recognized by a presidential grant.
Last but not least, Alina is the winner of international competitions: “Musa Jalil Award» and «The Genius of the Epoch ».
Elena was born in Voronezh, Russia. She graduated at the Voronezh Art College. Subsequently, she took training courses at the Academy for Aquarelle and Visual Arts in Moscow. Elena works as an artist and designer. She has worked as an artistic director of the children’s studio “Gems”. The essence of her work with children can be described as “discover your inner artist”. She has been painting with sand since 2009. Elena is a member of the jury of international competitions for child creativity. She is also a member of charity workshops for children and adults. Over the years, many sand stories have been created, among other things, for commercials, sand videos, and live performances. Several theatre productions have been enriched with Elena’s decorations painted in sand.
Artistic highlights
-In 2013, Elena participated at the International Exhibition in the forum “World through education” in Thousand Oaks, California
-In 2004, her works were displayed at an exhibition in Delhi, India
-In 2006, she participated at the international Christmas market of partner city arts in the framework of the Charlot Sister Cities Programme of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA in Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Peru, and China
-In 2012, Elena participated at the International Exhibition “Draw the Sun” at the College of Arts of the International Roerich Memorial Trust in Nagar, Himchal Pradesh, India
-She participated at the 1st International Travelling Exhibition for Sand Painting “Out of Time”
Awards
-Elena won at the 2nd International Festival for Sand Animation “Touch” in the categories “video” and “graphics”
-She won at the 4th International Festival for Sand Animation “Touch” in the category “Live Performance”
-Elena won a prize at the professional competition “Teacher of the year 2010”
-Elena won the International Prize for child and youth creativity “ARTIS” in the category “Teacher of the season 2015-2016 and 2017-2018”
-She won in numerous art competitions
-In 2014, she won a prize at the International Plein Air Prague, Dresden
Andy is one of the leading sand artists. Andy is from Nizhny Novgorod. There, he completed an arts degree at the university.
His artistic path began in his childhood. Initially, he drew animals, which later resulted in entire image compositions.
Andy specialized in impressive sand animation techniques, aquanimation (art of “marbling” or “ebru”) and light animation (similar to sand animation – creating astonishing stories on screen in an interplay of light and shade).
Since 2011 he has been devoted exclusively to sand and light painting.
Artistic highlights
– In 2014 his sand paintings were displayed at the exhibition “Thoughts” for contemporary art
– In 2014 he also contributed to the All-Russian campaign “BIBLIONOCH-2014” with his art
– At the end of the year 2015 Andy’s sand painting works were impressively illustrated in the collection of poems “Oh, Svetka!” by Inna Shakhova
Awards
Finalist of the popular TV-show “Das Supertalent” Germany in 2010.
Founder of the sand theatre shows in Munich’s Prinzregententheater, Hamburg’s Elbarkaden Café and the Admiralpalast Variete in Berlin.
Professional training at the Academy of Arts and the Department of Architecture at the University of Minsk.
Since 2006, Natalya has worked as an artist with her sand shows. She has long-term experience with sand painting performances in various places: Variete, dinner shows, events, movie productions, theatre and promotions of movies in sand. Natallia creates a personalised, unique sand-painting story for every customer.
Her projects
„Theatre of sand miniatures “, 2008-2010
Finalist of Dieter Bohlen‘s TV-show «Das Supertalent» Germany, MDR, 2010-2011 The political magazine of MDR with current topics.
Theatre project «Areja», idea script artistic direction artist. Theatre festival Ruhrfestspiele 2011 and 2012.
History of towns in sand art «Berlin, Ick liebe Dir!», «Hamburg Das Tor zur Welt», «München Weltstadt mit Herz»
Cooperation with directors from Germany and Belarus: Veit Helmer, Alexandra Butor
The following includes a few references
Roncalli, Krystallpalast Variete, BOSCH, Sony, IAA Frankfurt, Formula 1, RTL Sport Channel, Pink Ribbon, PALAZZO Mannheim, Alexander Kunz Theatre, Lufthansa, Mercedes Benz, Mary Kay, Rolls Roys, Kelly Family, Miele, Ölz, Cirque du Soleil, IKEA, Vita, BVB Borussia Dortmund, UEFA, MDR, Bayerischer Filmpreis, Das Supertalent, Estee Lauder, Eurovision Song Contest Düsseldorf 2011, Cartier ArtMasters Award 2017, Sankt-Moritz, Leitz
Polina was born in Kemerovo (Russia) in 1985. She studied art at the pedagogical art college in Russia. After graduation, she experimented with different artistic forms, before she decided upon sand painting. Sometimes she also paints with light, whereby she tells unique stories in her lightshows. She started her career in sand and light painting in 2009 in St. Petersburg. Since then she performed with her sand art at various concerts, gala events as well as theatres.
Artistic Highlights
– Polina presented her art at various art festivals and exhibitions
– Since 2010 she has worked in the creative group «Prana» in St. Petersburg
– From 2010-2013 she worked in the enterprises «Novaorganisation» and «Nox» in Turkey
– From 2013-2015 she worked in the creative «Aurum show» as leading artist of sand animation and light painting in Moscow
– In 2016 she worked in the «Artstudio» in Hurghada, Egypt
– She worked in the following theatres: «Hansa-Variete-Theater» in Hamburg, «Boulevardtheater» in Dresden, «Pfefferbergtheater» in Berlin, «Admiralspalast» in Berlin, «Cafe-Hahn» in Koblenz
Awards
– Polina achieved the second place at the International Competition for Sand Painting “The city of my dreams”
– In 2016, she achieved the third place at the Fourth International Festival of Sand Art “In Touch”
Olga was born in Kharkov, Ukraine. Since she was a little girl, she was very interested in art. Stemmed from a hobby, art became a passion which was made into her career. For Olga, sand painting is a means of personal expression and an artistic depiction of emotions and experiences. She started her career as a sand artist in 2011.
Artistic highlights
– She took part at the first international travelling exhibition of sand graphics „Out of Time”
– From 2011 to 2015, Olga was part of a live concert opera with opera music of Baden
– In 2014 she worked in Spain, where she was employed in the Park theatre «Port Aventura» with an own solo programme
– 2016 she illustrated a book with her personal sand painting techniques
– In 2017 she was engaged for making a historic film which was featured as a joint project of France and Latvia
– Olga was engaged as a fixed member of the creative jury in children’s competitions such as „Touch” in 2015 and «SAND BATTLE Kids» in 2016
– During a six years period Olga developed a specific sand painting technique and worked with many large companies and tv channels in Germany and Poland
Awards
– Olga was awarded the first prize in the international „Touch” festival of sand animation in 2013.
Born in Pskov Oblast in Russia.
Education: Art School N. K. Rerich, St. Petersburg, and Academy of Arts Repin, St. Petersburg.
Fields: Painting, Art.
From 2008 to 2011 she taught painting to children of preschool age. In 2010, she started to study sand animation. There, she creates concerts, performances, animated films, promotional videos, illustrations and sand graphics.
Exhibitions of sand graphics in St. Petersburg: “People of St. Petersburg” and “Patriotic war of 1812 in persons” (2012)
Performance with sand animation in the children’s musical “Hedgehog in the fog“ at the Mariinsky theatre in the framework of the project “Lecture of Olga Piccolo”
Grant from the Union of Theater workers to create a musical performance with sand animation based on Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale “Star boy” (2015)
Performance in the play on Pushkin’s “The Tale of the fisherman and the fish“ to the music of N. Lyadova and N. Rimsky-Korsakov at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic for children and youth (since 2015)
Drawing of a video with sand animation for the documentary “Bears of Kamchatka. The beginning of life” with the Studio “Lenfilm” (2015)
Sand illustrations for the film “Maruska” (directed by Vlasta Arno), which took part in the Cannes Film Festival (2016)
Curator of the First international travelling exhibition of sand graphics “Out of time”, held in the foyer of the concert hall of the Mariinsky theatre (2016)
Performance with a sand fairy tale “Cinderella” to the music of S. Prokofiev at the Christmas children’s charity ball at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, as well as in the play “OLE Lukoie. Fantasy in seven dreams” at the new stage of the Alexandrinsky theater of St. Petersburg.
Debut in Paris at the concert hall of Radio France Philharmonic orchestra Radio France with the musical fantasy with sand animation to music by G. Faure “Dolly“ and C. Debussy “Children’s corner“ (2017)
-In 2015, the film “While their voices are heard” won the 3rd place in the nomination “Graphics” at the international competition-festival of sand animation “Touch” in Ukraine.
-In the competition of 2016, she won the 2nd place in the nomination “Video” for “Sail”.
-In 2017, she won the contest “Touch” in the category “Video” for the work “Bach on the sand” to the music of the Sonata for violin №1 Bach performed by Dmitry Makhtin.
-In 2018, she became the winner of the St. Petersburg children’s charity organization “Big bear” in the category “Artist” for the creation of charity performances with sand animation.
Elena was born on December 7th, 1982 in the Russian city of Izhevsk.
Ever since she was a young child, Elena has been painting with great passion. In 2000, she mastered her artistic skills at the Art Academy in Izhevsk and graduated from the Faculty of Marketing and Design in 2005. Subsequently, she studied sand painting at the European School of Art in Moscow from 2011 to 2012.
From 2012 to 2013, she was the leader of the installation of various feature films and TV series.
Elena is in close cooperation with numerous creative associations and sand art studios. In addition, Elena is an important member of the jury of the all-Russian Children’s Festival sand animation “Children of Sand” (2016) and the Regional Kids’ Competition for Sand Painting (2016). As such, not only does she perform her passion professionally, but she also passes on skills to the next generation and fosters talent.
Artistic highlights
– In 2012 her unique art was exhibited at the Crocus City Hall in Sberbank,Russia
– Also in 2012, she contributed to the advertisement of the CAIS systems
– Elena’s sand show was presented in numerous performances of children’s tales with background music in the City Parks of Moscow
– In the following years, she performed a spectacular master sand animation for the BFT Big Cartoon Festival in Moscow
– She led a group of sand animations and developed a learning system for the drawing of multiple cartoon characters in sand
– Her expressive art could be viewed in several shows in the Central House of Artists as well as in the Central House of Actors in Moscow
– Elena is the leading sand artist in “Epic Russia” with the musical support of the Gusliar Orchestra in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 2016. The performance could be seen on the most famous squares in the Moscow Region.
– As a sand artist, she had the possibility to take part in the unique performances that bring together dance and sand theatre: “Shut up and Dance”, “The Little Prince” (2015), “Treasure Island” (2016), “The Wizard of Oz” (2016) and “Scarlet Sails” (2017).
– Elena’s sand art was presented on a tour through the cities of Russia.
– In 2016 she opened a personal exhibition of sand painting “The Sands of the Treasure Island”
– At the end of 2016, Elena developed a series of sand cartoons for an international reader competition in Moscow. It appeared in the final of the competition in the concert hall Crocus City Hall in Moscow and was broadcasted live around the world.
– She is the curator and artist of the first international sand graphics exhibition “Out of Time” in Izhevsk in 2017 where 5 countries and 38 artists participated.
In her childhood, Julia already loved drawing and spent much time with it. After she finished art school, she was admitted at the University of Arts, where she obtained her degree in graphic design. Subsequently, she worked on various art techniques. She was particularly drawn by watercolour and batik. In addition, she studied at the Academy of Arts at the Faculty of Easel Graphics in Kharkov. There, Julia deepened her skills in engraving, linocut and the painting with charcoal and ink.
In her search for a possibility to express emotions and feelings artistically, she finally came across sand painting.
She was immediately fascinated by the simplicity and the unpredictability, the smooth lines and silhouettes and the transformation from sand in paintings.
In 2010, she entered a studio for sand art and acquired techniques of this unique art form. From then on, she devoted herself entirely to sand painting.
Artistic highlights
– In 2010 Julia presented her self-developed sand show with animations from the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”
– Julia’s sand show was performed at various galas in Saint Petersburg for two weeks: “Vertex”, “Genesis”, “Growth”, “Aladushkin Group”, “Nokian”
– Julia was introduced as the leading artist at the jubilee at the National Energy Day in Saint Petersburg
– At the opening of Porsche’s show room in Zurich, Julia impressed the audience with her sand show.
– In 2014, an entire book filled with Julia’s sand creations was published
Tanya is 28 years old and completed her Art Education training with distinction at the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Russia, with focus on painting. She drew her entire life and made a career out of her greatest passion.
Since she was 18 she taught art. Throughout her career, Tatjana had developed several programmes for many different art forms and disciplines. With the help of the innovative software, the development of creative potential of children and adults should be supported. Her personal concern regarding this programme is to bring art closer to people who barely draw and who are not very interested in art. This is aimed to be achieved in one or two sessions at professional level. Of course, the creative work with sand plays the leading role in this training.
Artistic highlights
– She enriched three big movie productions with sand art, accompanied by a concert orchestra
– Tatjana created sand animations for many movie productions with famous actors and authors, whereby her works of art made of sand became a firm part of the performances.
– Tatjana’s sand art was illustrated on many book covers
– She was also part of the production of various music clips, where her sand art was impressively introduced
– In addition, she is juror and sponsor of the international online competition „Sandbattle Kids“ for children which supports young sand painting talents
– Tatjana’s art has a realistic touch and contains many elements of the sand graphics
Awards
– Winner of the International Competition for Sand Painting “The city of my dreams”
– She won the online competition “Sandbattle” for sand graphics four times in a row
– Since 2016, Tatjana is one of the leading sand artists of the International Community for Sand Painting „SANDACTIVE“
Evgenia was born in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
From 2002 to 2008, she studied Design and Arts at the State Academy in Kharkov. This Faculty fostered her talent and her creativity and enabled her the beginning as a trained sand artist in 2014.
From 2008 to 2014, Evgenia was employed in the sector of graphic design where she gathered experiences in the areas of creativity, sand painting, design and her work with various television stations. As such, every newly acquired skill contributed to something special and important in her life and made it possible for her to merge these in her sand art. Therefore, her art can be viewed as a mixture of different influences of cinema, painting, drawing and love for creativity. Evgenia is a certified sand artist and she actively participates at various artistic activities.
Artistic highlights
– Her sand art is specialised mainly in portraits and landscapes, where it underlines various emotions. The emphasis of the works is particularly placed on the personality and the mood.
– In 2015, she presented her sand art in Mexico City. She was present at several live performances which told stories accompanied by music in the presence of prominent leaders.
Born in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.
Anna enjoyed a comprehensive and well-founded artistic education. Her knowledge of an extremely broad range of disciplines enables her to master many different art forms and techniques.
She studied in Evstigneev at the Theatre School in Nizhniy Novgorod.
Specialisation in art and technology.
Professional education at the State Pedagogical University in Nizhniy Novgorod. Specialisation – Performing Arts.
Studies at the National Academy in Moscow.
Specialisation – Photography and Photojournalism.
From 2010 to 2012, she was active in various areas in the State Museum in Nizhniy Novgorod: Choice of paintings, posters and artworks, design of exhibitions, leading the master class in composition, painting, sand animation and sand shows.
From 2013 to 2018, she was the leader of the creative workshops “JiNN”: Sand art, leading of various creative master classes and social projects, live performances, drawing and video editing.
Some of her artistic highlights are sand painting performances at renowned events and in important theatres and concert halls.
Alla was born on November 28th, 1976 in the Russian city of Murom.
Ever since she can remember, she painted at every opportunity. Her attention was drawn to creative experimenting with various artistic materials. Her first works were based on watercolour, acrylic, oil and pastel chalk. After some time, she experimented with ceramics and clay. Finally, she discovered sand as the ideal material for her artistic expression. The natural plasticity and the breath of eternity of sand were to remain vital in her and she focused on sand painting completely ever since.
In 1990, Alla began training at the Art School in Nizhny Novgorod in Russia. Afterwards, she completed her training at the University of Gzhel at the Faculty of Ceramics with Honours. To combine her skills in art and design, she educated herself further at the Academy of Marketing Management and Art Design. Her especially developed sand technique includes realistic portraits and drawing technique which show her distinctive style.
Artistic highlights
– Alla’s art was presented at multiple art festivals and exhibitions
– In 2016 and 2017, she was once again awarded and won the International Competition for Sand Graphics “Sandbattle”
– She took part at the development and the publication of the album “Sand Pictures 2017”
– Her cooperation includes performances in important concert halls, accompanied by orchestras and quartets
– She performed at historical sites such as the Tretjakow Gallery and in the Central House for Music in the Cathedral of Peter and Paul in Moscow
– Alla presented her sand art to the Sheikh of Kuwait
– In 2017, a book about Anton Chekhov was published, which contained several illustrations with her sand art
– She performed with her impressive sand show for many famous concerns: Gazprom, Krone, Lukoil, Calvin Klein, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi
Awards
– She gets involved every year at the sand art exhibition “Young Talent” for promising young artist
– In 2014, Alla won the first prize for sand graphics of the international competition “Touch” in Dnipropetrovsk.
