Nadja is a London-based painter and is mainly interested in depicting people. Nadja's pictures are about colour, tension and intensity. Then, they are about humanity, intimacy, fragility, loneliness, but also closeness, sensuality and sexuality. Finally, they are about pausing the moment to get intensely close so as to see the beauty of vulnerability and the movement within stillness.

Before dedicating herself to painting Nadja was a composer. She gained a doctorate from the Royal College of Music, won the prestigious Mendelssohn Scholarship, her music has been performed in the UK, Germany, France, Switzerland and the USA by leading performers, including the Arditti String Quartet, and was heard on BBC Radio 3 as well as USA radio stations.

Nadja paints at OPEN Ealing studios.