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Ana Stoliarova-Khawaja, known as Ana Kha, is a self-taught, contemporary abstract painter, born in little town Klaipeda, Lithuania, on the Baltic Sea in 1985. She worked as a model for three years, traveled the world from East to Wes, posed for many fashion designers, walked the runway, finally settling in Los Angeles in 2006. Since then, Ana devoted her time for painting, starting from small scale canvases, moving toward a bigger scale. Most of the time she works from her studio in Beverly Hills.

"While working and traveling around the world, it appeared i had abandoned my love of painting. Not so! My passion and love for art keeps me full of life and creativity. In my works i look for balance and harmony. My inspiration comes from everything around me: fashion, people, nature, design, magazines...bringing past experience in to the present"-says Ana Kha.

Unlike most contemporary abstract artists Ana likes to spend quite a time on each painting: " I prefer working on few paintings at the same time. Sometimes leaving work for few weeks, and with a fresh eye completing, till full satisfaction". Most of Ana Kha works are in oil and acrylic, painted dreams composed of light, colors and emotions. Her first works were more realistic, after a while freed from reality of the object portrayed, producing a new form of perception, developing more non-objective art.