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welcome to the tropical world


Painting Art

Feel
the breeze in your imagination
Hold on the moment and dive in that sound of waves
Find your shiny warm place in that window of a canvas

Original Art

Series

Palms & Carribean blue

Perú

Africa

I C U

Urban Moods

Overdose

Aquarelle

Un paseo por San ANtonio de los Altos

Drawings

Fine Art Print
A Fine Art Print is a wonderful opportunity to bring a bright and expressive artwork into your home—especially when you’re not looking to purchase an original. If you’re interested in a high-quality reproduction of one of my paintings, simply get in touch with me. All Fine Art Prints are produced using an advanced 12-color giclée printing process on premium, refined 200 gsm paper. This technique ensures exceptional color vibrancy, depth, and a beautifully nuanced finish that stays true to the original painting. Print prices vary depending on the artwork and format.
Tor eines mediterranen Hauses in der Toskana mit schmiedeeisernem Tor, Ziegelmauern, üppiger Vegetation und einem großen Tontopf. Als Fineart Print.

Kayana

• 1980, born in Bendery • german/russian/some more • early art education in local art schools • 1990 Cologne, Germany • art school • music-focused high school (Abitur) • 2002–2003 volunteer work assignment in East Africa • carpentry • graphic design (state-certified) • 2 wonderful children • building family home • painting studies with Izabella Chulkova • painting studies with T. Ildrem Sultanov • consecutive exhibitions of my own artworks • 2018/2019 cultural project in Peru: Andes/Amazon/Lima • painting studies with Jesús Venero, Cusco • university interior design, TH-OWL, Detmold • color theory studies with Prof. Dorothea Schutsch and Philipp Hiller • design theory with Prof. Ulrike Kerber • painting •
Kayana. Lächelnde blonde Frau im Leopardenmuster-Kleid vor tropischen Gemälden mit Palmen und Strand.

ABOUT

There is so much good all around us. Beauty is right there — we only need to slow down and look.
This belief has stayed with me for many years and shapes my life as much as my art. Not everything unfolds as planned. Not everything can be understood right away.
There are moments when we fall deep — and moments when we rise again.
Yet even in moments of stillness, of transition, of new beginnings, there is still something valuable and wonderful to be found. That is why I am drawn to color and light — in art, and in life.
Behind my work lies a journey. You’re welcome to step beyond the canvas.
My life turned out quite different from what I imagined and wished for as a girl — completely different. When I look at my résumé today, I sometimes smile. Because ever since I can remember, there should have been an art degree listed, right after high school. Especially after Africa. And back then, I was even accepted into the art academy right away.


I was born in a small southern European country of the former Soviet Union, as daughter of my german father and my russian mother, raised between cultures with my little brother — loved and protected, shaped by movement, change, and new beginnings. I learned early on not to attach myself to places, but to atmospheres. Home, for me, is not a point on a map — it’s a feeling. It’s the connection to what lives in my heart.


One day, as a young European woman, I flew south to the equator. To the warm days of East Africa, to the positive, joyful, humble, and gracious people there, with the rich colors everywhere, the original creativity, the delicious fruits, the stunning landscapes, the fascinating wildlife, and the charming flip-flop culture. In that place, I discovered a tropical world full of color, exotic flavors, natural beauty, and people with a kind, unhurried way of life. I lived and worked in the middle of it all. That long stay inspired and shaped me. And that latitude, that climate zone, became my place of longing to this day. Sun, palm trees, ocean.


A few years later, my journey led me back to the equator, this time on the other side of the world. After a project in the South American tropics, my love for the jungle and the Caribbean was born. As well as my interest in Latin American culture. I had always liked its cheerful and lively music, but now I discovered it consciously — the joyful, open, energetic people, their beautiful Spanish language, their unhurried way of living in the moment, truely savoring the moment, and the breathtaking natural and urban landscapes with their colorful, exotic animal and plant life.


I love immersing myself in this world — it radiates so much positive, motivating energy and joy, the kind that feels like soft sunlight on the skin and the delicate shimmer of water in the background.

And as it is with artists :) — whatever inspires me, moves me, touches me, eventually finds its way onto my canvas.


I paint emotions. Atmospheres. Memories.

I paint freedom, longing, and the warm glow of the tropical worlds. Sometimes as if I’m seeing them through a window, sometimes as if I’m standing or walking there, and sometimes as if I’m flying above that painted world, wings spread wide.
My art is mostly a quiet place in the noise of the world.
A space that breathes. A moment that tells a story.

It is my language.


Exhibitions

• 2016 May - Galerie Galina Seidel, Köln-Ehrenfeld

• 2017 April - Kunsthalle Lindenthal, Köln, Kunstagentur Zarifa Art

• 2017 May - Gallerie Art Café Köln, Köln-Zentrum am Dom

• 2017 June - Wessinale, Wesseling, Kunstagentur Zarifa Art

• 2017 October - Galerie Kontraste, José Ocón, Erwitte-Horn

• 2018 March - Altes Pfandhaus, Köln, Kunstagentur Zarifa Art

• 2018 June - Wessinale, Wesseling, Kunstagentur Zarifa Art

• 2018 September - Tango & Jazz Konzert, Fotostudio Hanses, Leopoldshöhe
• 2019 June - Taquinay Latin Konzert, Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Kulturforum

• 2022 August - Taquinay Latin Konzert, Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Kulturforum 

• 2022 October - Altes Pfandhaus, Köln, Kunstagentur Zarifa Art

• 2024 March - Altes Pfandhaus, Köln, Kunstagentur Zarifa Art

• 2025 May - Löhrerhof, Hürth, Kunstagentur Zarifa Art

• 2025 July - Wessinale, Wesseling, Kunstagentur Zarifa Art
Blick von oben auf eine Kunstausstellung mit Besuchern auf zwei Ebenen und zahlreichen Gemälden an den Wänden.
Lächelnde Frau in Blumenkleid präsentiert das von ihr gekaufte Gemälde eines Leoparden, der auf einem Baumstamm schläft, gemalt von Kayana.
Katharina Harms
Beautiful Glimpse into Other Worlds
"I love Kayana’s paintings — I have made two of them my own. They are so deeply rooted in the here and now, and yet they carry me into another world where I can dream, let go, and allow my thoughts to flow. Each painting has that certain something for me — something that makes it special, outstanding, and subtly individual. It is a joy for me to get to know her both in real life and through her artworks — everything just feels perfectly in harmony. She puts so much thought into details, and I truly appreciate that."
Current Exhibition
Here you will find all the information about the location, time, and everything else when the next exhibition of my art works is planned.
Strand mit türkisfarbenem Meer, Palmen und ihren Schatten auf dem Sand.
Ready to step into my world of color and stories?
This place where emotions take shape, moments slow down, and where beauty is already there — waiting to be seen. If my work speaks to you, I’d love to hear from you.
Kayana, Katharina Dyck, art, Kunst, painting, Gemälde, artist, Künstler, Künstlerin, tropical, color, Farbe
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