About Elena Mosko
I originally started painting because I wanted to capture and interpret the discoveries of my old world European travels. As I was trying to keep those sights and sounds in my memory as long as I could, I found great fulfillment in putting my feelings on canvas and sharing them with the world. Most of my early works were created with that energy behind them.
The endless capabilities of oils made it my medium of choice. In more recent years my constant need for experimentation in different mediums and hunger for discovery guided me to a very new level of bringing foils, rice paper, plastics and various pigments, and, of course, oils, together in what has become a unique process behind my mixed media creations. Not always predictable outcome, wild interaction between colors and that unbelievably sacred moment of the image finally revealing itself, keeps me going back to the studio for more. I create so I can always see the world with fresh eyes to bring a sense of wonder and simple timeless beauty into my viewer’s world.
“We were lucky to grow up around world famous art museums. In my Soviet Union childhood, art was always at my fingertips. It was bound to “rub off”.”
Elena’s art journey started as a self-taught artist experimenting with a variety of mediums as a weekend hobby. Much to her surprise, the interest quickly became a serious passion and a second career. She believes her way to ultimately emerging as an artist was pre-determined by the great works of art she was exposed to her entire childhood.
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Elena was born in Moscow, Russia (then Soviet Union) in a family of a government official and a publishing house editor. In the early 90’s she moved to the United States to pursue her masters degree in business and found her new home in San Francisco Bay Area. Almost 30 years later, having raised three sons in California, Elena and her husband Scott moved to a small ranch in Fall City near Seattle fulfilling their life-long dream of living in the Pacific NorthWest.
Mosko started her painting career under the guidance of a renowned landscape master Stefan Baumann.
Mosko started her painting career under the guidance of a renowned landscape master Stefan Baumann.
Her early oil paintings were her way to reflect and meditate on the sights she encountered in her travels. The hobby quickly turned into passion and produced a number of works now finding their way into homes and businesses in the United States and Europe alike. With the oil always her staple medium she later experimented with a variety of styles to express her visions, happily accommodating rice paper, foils and liquid plastics into her artistic tools.
Bridging Art and Culture
Creations by Elena Mosko have helped support a variety of causes. They were auctioned off to raise funds for educational programs, cancer prevention research, children art programs, San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco Boys Chorus and many other causes.
In the more recent years her artistic vision combined with the business and marketing background found a new application as she served on the Board of Directors for the Arts Council Silicon Valley.
Outside of the time spent in her studio, Elena finds many ways to exercise her creativity as the CEO and Founder of Globiana – a business helping people settle into foreign environments and new cultures. When not managing the company or painting, she can be found tending the grounds of their Snoqualmie River ranch, traversing the world historical sites with her husband Scott, being a mom to their three sons or tending a flock of backyard chickens.
