About Elena Mosko
Elena Mosko is a mixed-media painter based in Fall City, Washington, known for her richly layered surfaces, luminous color, and the use of oil, acrylic, foils and pouring mediums to create paintings that feel both grounded and quietly surprising. For more than twenty years, she has exhibited her work throughout the Western United States, including shows in California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Colorado.
Elena’s studio practice is intuitive and process-driven. Each painting develops through multiple layers of paint, mark-making, scraping, and revision, allowing unexpected textures and forms to emerge until the piece reaches a natural point of resolution. Her work is deeply informed by lived experience—travel, time in nature, and everyday moments—which she translates into atmospheric, abstracted spaces that invite personal interpretation.
Elena has long been committed to arts education and community service. In California, she served as a volunteer art docent in local schools, bringing hands-on visual arts experiences to elementary students and helping them build confidence and curiosity through creative exploration. She also served on the board of Arts Council Silicon Valley (now part of SVCREATES), supporting regional arts organizations and advocating for broader public access to the arts.
“We were lucky to grow up around world famous art museums. In my Eastern European childhood, art was always at my fingertips. It was bound to “rub off”.”
An active supporter of charitable causes, Elena regularly donates her artwork to benefit auctions and nonprofit fundraisers, using her paintings to help generate resources for community organizations and social-impact groups. Collectors are drawn not only to the visual richness of her work but also to the sense of generosity, connection, and lived history that underpins her practice.
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Elena was born in Moscow, Russia (then the Soviet Union) and moved to the United States in the early 1990s to pursue her master’s degree, eventually making the San Francisco Bay Area her home for nearly three decades. After raising three sons in California, she and her husband relocated to a small ranch in Fall City, Washington, embracing their long-held dream of life in the Pacific Northwest.
She began her painting career studying with landscape painter Stefan Baumann, initially using oils to process and honor the places she encountered in her travels.
What started as a personal creative outlet soon evolved into a dedicated practice, with her work entering private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe. Over time, Elena expanded her approach to include mixed media, integrating materials such as rice paper, foils, and liquid plastics to deepen the texture and expressiveness of her paintings.
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.
