Hi there!
I'm Sophia, watercolor and mix media artist who created CanotStop Painting Gallery and this shop as part of the gallery.

First, it has started with my own artworks only in 2013 and one shop. I always dreamed about creating art for real people and not only for white cube concept galleries. And this shop is actually dream that came true.

Now we are a team of artists, so you would find artworks by other artists as well and we all connected by real passion for art creating process - we can't stop painting.

We are perfectionists and have very high standards for quality of our art. So our prints always made with best quality materials, printing process is so called "Giclée" which is actually the most expensive printing with usage of archival inks and archival surfaces. Giclée prints stands for high quality art reproductions and used by museums all over the world to represent original pieces perfectly.

And as I said our main goal is to create art for your homes, homes of real gorgeous humans. We are so happy always to see our art in new homes when you send us pictures of hanged art!

Every single order support now living artists and we are extremely thankful for this opportunity to do that we love and to make other people a bit more happy when they look at our art.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
Sophia and CanotStopPainting Gallery team


Sophia's Artist Statement:
My work is about moments. I see our lives and our existence as endless layers of moments. My art is about these moments. The moments that are changing and having impact on other moments. I’m trying to create moments “familiar” to the viewer.
Therefore, I have no specific or favourite subjects, and I am very eclectic in my choice of subjects. I believe in “space” as a subject that looks different with different objects placed in it. This is the reason for my extreme attention to composition in my art.

All that makes my art works very whimsical, often layered, with a lot of abstract spots and points of realistic details. I paint with watercolors because watercolor is the best medium for representing  such a changing structure of world spaces. The transparence of watercolor and the unique painting technique where loose and abstract strokes are used result in an artwork that is capable of capturing a moment that is open for interpretation. 



Everything inspires me to paint: every moment of life has its own beauty and deserves to be captured and to be shown. The only question is how? How to “create” this special moment on paper? How to make it smell like that moment, look like that moment and feel like that moment? These questions are the questions I ask myself during my art process and I always love to learn new ways of color control or new techniques and materials.Space is endless and is made of countless moments and my art process is endless as well. I create every day and every moment.

When I can’t paint or sketch, I paint in my mind. One moment leads to another. I just can’t stop painting


BIO:
Sophie Rodionov is an Estonian-born based in Israel artist. Since 2013 she works as full time self employed artist, designer and illustrator with a range of art collectors, fashion and textile designers, brands and interior designers. Member of International Watercolor Society since 2017 and co-representative of IWS Israel since 2019.



Her current work is a balance between abstract shapes and realistic forms, which shift between and create a layered world of captured moments. Sophie finds inspiration in every moment of life and trying to show that each moment deserve to be shown and has its own unrepeatable beauty.



Her works present in private collections of over the world, including United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Netherlands and others. Sophie work with a numerous top-brands and create illustration designs for products of these companies (such as Papyrus, Metal Frame Works, Wendover Art Group and others).



Sophie cooperate with social un-commercial projects and trying to be involved by the art. Among these projects are BBC interior design show for people with disabilities, auction for the animal rescue farm in California, auction for ballet school, wall art for cat clinic of Wisconsin University and so on.



Sophie has a background as a glass artist and holds a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts from Haifa University.