Marianna Foster is an Ukrainian painter, was born in 1982 Nikolaev, Ukraine. She relocating to Phoenix, Arizona in 2012 with her husband and two little children. In Ukraine she was classically trained, graduated from the prestigious National Institute of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kiev with a Master of Arts degree. Prior to the Institute, she studied for five years at the Children's Art School in Nikolaev, Ukraine. In addition to classes, Marianna studied for two years painting and drawing privately with famous masters of Ukrainian and Russian art.