Valentina Sudakova (Vellaart) is an artist and designer based between Tanzania and South Africa. Her work combines close observation of nature with precise drawing and a decorative approach to composition.
Working across traditional and digital media, she draws inspiration from African wildlife and botanical motifs. She pays particular attention to line, detail, and the relationships between forms - how individual elements come together to create a cohesive composition.
Her approach combines careful construction with the intuitive development of a drawing. Natural forms provide a starting point for exploring rhythm, mood, and a visual language of her own.
Valentina is a creative director and multidisciplinary designer with over a decade of experience across digital design, visual identity, and brand communication.
She develops cohesive visual languages that connect how a brand looks, how it works, and how people experience it. As Head of Design at African Wildlife Holding, she leads design across travel, hospitality, and conservation-focused projects in East Africa. Her work includes design direction for Altezza Travel, visual identities for lodges, and design consultancy for hospitality projects.
Her practice spans websites and digital interfaces, packaging, printed materials, merchandise, and textiles. Across these formats, she translates a brand’s character into a consistent visual language, with close attention to usability, typography, materials, and production. With a background in fine art, Valentina brings a sensitivity to composition, colour, and detail to her design work. She combines this with a systematic approach, creating identities and experiences that feel distinctive and remain coherent as a brand grows.
I’m always looking for inspiring connections.
I welcome enquiries about creative direction, design projects, art commissions, and collaborations. I’m especially drawn to fashion, film, photography, hospitality, interiors, and music, as well as projects connected to science, technology, social impact, and wildlife conservation.
If you feel we could create something meaningful together, I’d love to hear from you.
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