reating stories and pictures has been Masha D'yans’ favorite thing to do ever since she was a little girl in St. Petersburg, Russia. Masha moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager and eventually studied painting, printmaking and graphic design at Cooper Union in New York.

After graduation she worked as an art director with a focus on brand identity for several design and advertising agencies in Boston. Despite her professional success in graphic design, she never forgot her love of painting and illustration.

In 2002 Masha launched a greeting card company based on her own watercolors. Her playful, sensitive, and colorful painting style draws inspiration from nature, fashion design, calligraphy, Japanese art and, of course, her native fairy tales. Whimsical and sophisticated, her themes are evocative of a child's imagination: euphoric abandon, everyday mystery, and the beauty of imperfection.

Masha's cards found their first audience in upscale stores such as Barneys NY, Louis Boston and Neiman Marcus. Now her card line may be found in exclusive boutiques to specialty lines developed for Target and Barnes & Noble. Her growing list of product development includes tee shirts for Target, CD jackets for Bergdorf Goodman, bedding for Garnet Hill, and T-shirts and home decor for Urban Outfitters.

Masha also designs paper-engineered cards for The Museum of Modern Art’s renowned holiday card line. Her Times Square ball drop design recently won an international Louie award.

Masha currently lives in Los Angeles where she enjoys painting while looking out onto her roof garden frequented by humming birds and other magical creatures.