My name is Sophia Anastasia; I earn my income as a painter and illustrator and I am a single parent to two children. After study at the art academy in Arnhem, Holland, in the 1980s, I traveled the word and settled in Bali where I lived for 14 years, painted, made friends and had a relationship with film maker Lorne Blair. We had a daughter who is 27 years old now.
I returned to Holland 20 years ago, had a son, who is now 19, and live in the city of Utrecht with my son. My daughter Xenia lives by herself. More detailed descriptions of parts of my life, to be found on page: Sophia Anastasia.
Below to short documentaries: one painting (2016) and one an interview (in Dutch) that appeared on local Dutch television in January 2010
Beside painting I also Twitter, write blogs about art and various subjects, I write recipes that I post on Twitter, I renovate and restyle interiors, houses and gardens. I did an interior-design course in 2009. This was specifically aimed at restyling for selling property. I do not commercially practice this any more.
At the Red Cross I used to do volunteer work. We used to have a shop that sold secondhand clothes and I have been working at the shop for the past 15 years until it closed recently.
