Artist spotlight

Katwrina Golban: Color and Water

20 July 2026

Katwrina Golban has been painting professionally for over thirty years in Chișinău, creating bold, icon-like works on large canvases that blend figurative art with pop sensibility. Her practice draws inspiration from internet imagery and everyday life, translated into watercolor sketches and richly textured pieces that celebrate color and provocation. Working across scenes of water, leisure, and portraiture—from beach scenes to intimate moments—Golban creates paintings that sit comfortably between Hopper's narrative stillness and the visual language of contemporary pop art. Her work invites you into moments that feel both pulled from the everyday and transformed into something distinctly her own.