OCTOBER 2009
Winner 1st place - Award for Portraiture "Tirau Artfest Exhibition 2009"

Title of the painting: Muse (Series)
Medium: Mixed
Dimentions: 10" x 10"

JULY 2009
Winner 2nd place, group "One Size Fits All" exhibition at the Thornton Gallery

Where: 298 Barton Street, Hamilton
When: 10 - 31 July
Info: Featuring 100's of artists from around New Zealand, this show is based on 25 x 25cm artworks. Sponsored by - Gordon Harris.
Title of the paintings: Dreamer Series (V, ll, lll)
Medium: Mixed (acrylics, coffee, glue)
Dimentions: 10" x 10"

DECEMBER 2008
Group "Smalls Exhibition" at the Harrisons Gallery

Theme: "It's a small world (after all)"
Where: 106 Eleventh Avenue, Tauranga
When: 1 December - 24 December
Info: A Christmas exhibition involving hundreds of 10" x 10" canvases by national New Zealand artists.
Title of the paintings: On the eve of... (l, ll, lll) + Dreamer Series X3
Medium: Mixed (acrylics, coffee, glue)
Dimentions: 10" x 10"

DECEMBER 2008
Group exhibition at the Tairawhiti Museum - Gisborne's award winning museum and art galler

Theme: "Scent"
Where: Tairawhiti Museum & Art Gallery, Gisborne
When: 5 December - 31 January
Intro: Ten diverse noses. Graeme Knowles, Cris Van Doren, Anya Veryaskina, Lina Marsh, Moana Colmer, Dudley L Meadows, Melanie Tahata, Jolene Douglas, Kate Lobb, and Owen Mapp.
Scent in all it’s myriad forms, photographical, tactile, two dimensional, conceptual – paints, prints, mixed media, sculptures. Each of these artists will pool their sensorial energies into this enticing bouquet.
Title of the painting: Inhale (painting one - female); Exhale (painting two - male)
Medium: Mixed
Dimentions: 30" x 60" (762 x 1524mm) - both paintings
Artist Statement: "One of the things I remember most vividly from my childhood, and something I miss very much is,
strangely enough, birch trees. Sleek and slender trees with their elegant white bark and their tiny leaves. Whenever I see one I am reminded of long-gone summers in Russia. What really sparks a wave of nostalgia though is in my case the smell of a forest - the wet, moist smell of the underwood, of dried leaves and wild mushrooms. I not merely remember these moments in my mind, I feel them vividly. It has always astounded me how a scent can set off such strong emotions. Many things may trigger such a feeling, a sound or a sight, but a scent will truly overwhelm, with all the melancholic memories of the past. It transcends your mind to a certain place in time, or a particular scene in motion, and you can briefly relive that moment again and attempt in vain to capture it for a little longer. My two paintings portray such occurrence, the "have had and lost" emotion, the melancholic what was, what is and what could have been mood of nostalgia, experienced by both genders, set in motion by their senses, one such being scent."

NOVEMBER 2008
2008 National Drawing Award exhibition

Title of the drawing: Insomnia
About: The National Drawing Award 2008, presented by RVCA, is the third in an ongoing biennial event hosted by New Zealand’s leading independent contemporary art galleries: ARTSPACE, Auckland and The Physics Room, Christchurch. The competition is open to anyone with an artistic practice who lives permanently in New Zealand or has New Zealand citizenship. Drawings must be A4 size, unframed.
Where and When: ARTSPACE,Exhibition Dates 29 November–20 December 2008
Website: http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/gallery/NationalDrawingAward/2008

JULY 2007
Winner 1st prize of the Winsor and Newton "Opera Rose Painting Competition 2007"

Title of the painting: "Games"
Medium: Mixed
Competition Requirement: Opera Rose is a colour that inspires... how will it inspire you? A small squeeze from the tube is all it takes to realise the beauty of Opera Rose. Can you bring out the best of this magnificent colour?

MAY 2007
Winner of the "Takapuna Art Supplies Merit Award" in "The Pumphouse Art Awards 2007"

Theme: Modern Dilemma
Title of the painting: "Shall I...?"
Judge: Tony Ogle
Artist Statement: "My painting portraits the complexity of intimacy and the ever-changing concept of courtship in today’s "casual" society, the modern dilemma being the conflict between trust and openness versus the pain and disappointment it is likely to cause."
Judge's Comments: "Anya has created a confronting portrait of a woman who is all attitude - in your face - simultaneously powerful yet vulnerable. Painted with attitude too."

FEBRUARY 2007
First solo exhibition "Very Well, Thank You..." at the PPg Gallery