Anna Zubarev is a self-taught artist whose freehand line work combines structured, repetitive patterning with floral and botanical motifs. Born in Belarus, she emigrated to the United States in 1992, at age sixteen. She discovered the Zentangle drawing method in November 2018 and adapted its patterning into her own free-flowing floral drawings. She works both by hand in ink and digitally, using Procreate on an iPad.
In February 2021, the artist Jason Chambers introduced her to the NFT space. She later moved from New York, where she had lived for three decades, to North Florida near Jacksonville. Many of her collaborative editions are built around a recurring figure she calls LUNA, with other artists layering their own animation, color, or design onto her original line work. These collaborative works include Night's Radiant Bloom, a 2023 animated piece for which Zubarev made the original floral drawing that Matiliart then animated. In December 2022, she collaborated with Matias Roladan, known as Yelojoquemira. That same month, her work appeared in the “SCOPE” art show during Art Basel Miami. She has also self-published Zentangle-themed coloring books under the name Zentangle Art Story, sold on Amazon.
