Irina Schestakowich spent her childhood in Montreal and has been in Toronto since the 1980’s. Irina graduated from the University of Victoria, BC in Fine Arts. She specialized in printmaking and early classical Buddhist imagery. She is an active member of Open Studio.

Irina Schestakowich likes the challenge of confronting disorder and struggling to translate it into her sense of beauty and perfection. The final result is never too perfect and always slightly open to change, because change cannot be stopped.