Katerina Gordeeva
b. 1984 · Ukrainian · based in Cancún, Mexico
After more than two decades working in illustration and concept art, she turned to abstract painting as a way of exploring how an inner state can become visible and shared without words.
Working intuitively primarily on silk, she allows color, movement, material, and time to transform an initial impulse as each painting unfolds. Her work is interested in the space where something internal becomes atmosphere.
Selected Works
Settle is a small group of works created in search of a quieter, more grounded feeling. Layers soften brighter colours into denser, mineral-like surfaces, holding both movement and a sense of pause.
Settle
Year
2026
Settle I
Acrylic on silk
43 × 54 cm
Acrylic on silk
43 × 54 cm
Settle II
Understory
Year
2026
A small body of work that emerged from a quieter, denser emotional space, Understory explores what it means to remain present with what is happening underneath the surface - taking breath after breath without rushing to perform, explain, or become something else.
The title carries a duality: the darker layer beneath the forest canopy, and a story beneath the surface.
The works are shaped by deepened, layered colour and a sense of moving inward.
Acrylic on silk
43 x 54 cm
You’ll Miss This Shade
Understory
Some Things Need Shade
Understory
Acrylic on silk
43 x 54 cm
Acrylic on silk
40 × 50 cm
Before the Light Settles
Understory
Hold Nothing
Understory
Acrylic on silk
43 x 54 cm
Let It Hold You
Understory
Acrylic on silk
41 × 41 cm
Before It Dissolves
Understory
Acrylic on silk
43 x 54 cm
Thoughts
Year
2026
Thoughts is an ongoing series of small works — a kind of wordless visual diary. It allows me to hold on to ideas, impressions and states that catch my attention before they disappear or grow into something larger.
Thoughts 1
Acrylic on silk
25 × 30 cm
Thoughts 2
Acrylic on silk
25 × 30 cm
Thoughts 3
Acrylic on silk
25 × 30 cm
Thoughts 4
Acrylic on silk
25 × 30 cm
Thoughts 5
Acrylic on silk
25 × 30 cm
Thoughts 6
Acrylic on silk
25 × 30 cm
Thoughts 7
Acrylic on silk
25 × 30 cm
Acrylic on silk
25 × 30 cm
Thoughts 8
Shifting Streams
Year
2025
Shifting Streams developed through layers, returning to the same paintings over time and allowing different states to accumulate, soften and transform. For me, these layers hold both the weight of what is happening and a sense of movement through it - always leaving space to breathe.
Stay Curious
Shifting Streams
Acrylic on silk
45 × 60 cm
Something Like This
Shifting Streams
Acrylic on silk
43 × 54 cm
Rising Light 2
Shifting Streams
Acrylic on silk
60 × 90 cm
All at Ones
Shifting Streams
Acrylic on silk
60 × 90 cm
In Lilac Air - Deep Within
Shifting Streams
Acrylic on silk
60 × 90 cm
In Lilac Air - Soft After
Shifting Streams
Acrylic on silk
60 × 90 cm
Becoming
Year
2025
Becoming marks an early period of finding my way into abstraction. Moving away from recognizable forms, I began exploring how something felt or experienced could be held in colour, movement and form.
Each work became a different attempt at finding that language.
Let Me Wander, I’ll Find My Way Out
Becoming
Acrylic on silk
30 × 40 cm
Summer Echoes
Becoming
Acrylic on silk
30 × 40 cm
The Core
Becoming
Acrylic on silk
30 × 40 cm
What Remains
Becoming
Acrylic on silk
65 x 90 cm
Half-Remembered
Becoming
Acrylic on silk
37 × 54 cm
Into Quiet
Becoming
Acrylic on silk
20 × 25 cm
More works can be viewed on the Work page.