A colorful vintage sign featuring a mermaid with a human upper body and a fish tail, holding a yellow sun hat. The mermaid has long yellow hair flowing behind her. The sign contains the words "Yachts Published" at the top, "Rhinetone Rades" on the mermaid's arm, and "Property" vertically on the right side. The background has a rustic, weathered look with decorative red and black borders at the top and bottom.

Pride Logo Design Winner! Artisit Highlight Veta Bakhtina

Veta Bakhtina is a Newport, Oregon-based oil painter, muralist, and children's book writer. Her works draw from the natural world as well as myth and fable from her Slavic heritage and around the world. Veta's paintings and writing focus on themes of home, nostalgia, and manifestations of infinity in nature through a trans-cultural lens. Veta grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the end of the Communist era and credits her exposure to uncharted nature and the tradition of culture for much of her inspiration and working style. Veta is a traveling muralist. When not out collecting reflections around the world, her original art can be found in her working studio at Creatures' Secrets Gallery, Aquarium Village and Crow's Nest Gallery in Seal Rock on the Oregon Coast.
Published work by Veta Bakhtina includes the children's book The Magic Traveling Bunk Bed as well as the popular divination deck The Creatures' Secrets Animal Divination as well as paintings can be found at www.vetabakhtina.com

Please support Veta’s art check out her website www.vetabakhtina.com

Purchase her works. She has archival prints in Beir One, and purchase other creations at links below.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/261294524/creatures-secrets-animal-divination-card

https://www.etsy.com/listing/762252660/the-magical-traveling-bunk-bed-and-the

A woman with a large straw hat and paint-splattered clothes smiling and holding paintbrushes is posing in front of a colorful mural featuring animals and artistic elements.
Colorful vintage poster advertising a wrestling ring with a cartoon illustration of a humanoid rooster in cowboy attire and a sea monster with a dolphin tail, surrounded by waves and boats, with decorative patterns and text.
A woman painting a surreal, fantasy scene on a canvas, featuring a house, a large fish skeleton with city buildings on its back, a glowing lamp, and a night sky with stars.
Painted sign with a mermaid playing an electric guitar, holding a starfish, and a lime green and yellow flower. Text reads 'Yachats Pride' and 'Pleasant Jones, Yachats 2026'. The background is yellow with a red decorative top border, and the bottom depicts a body of water with sailboats.