BETWEEN THE WORDS. THE BORDER | OCEAN Print

Dance your life, today, now. Be bright, enjoy, catch the wave. Chaos around you, everything changes. Surrender to the flow of time, find your movement and speed, your rhythm. Live your life. Dance your life. Contemporary Ukrainian artist. Born in Nikolaev. Until 2022, she lived and worked in Odessa, where she graduated from the Children’s Art School of Arts (1997). Received a bachelor’s degree and a specialist (2002) of fine and decorative arts, mastered academic painting and studied art history. In 2022, she was forced to leave Ukraine due to the war that began in the country. Currently lives and works in Barcelona. She began her artistic practice with realism and impressionistic painting, preferring plein air painting. Most of the works were painted while traveling around different countries: France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Mexico, Iceland. During this period she took part in 7 international plein-airs and in more than 5 watercolor biennials. During the same period, she actively taught, created her own school of watercolor and sketching. Currently works in series in various media, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, graphite, photography. Works in the styles of impressionism, abstract impressionism and expressionism. Works were exhibited in Ukraine, India, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy. Her work was influenced by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Joan Mitchell. In his work, he explores life, chaos, living reality. With strong dense movements of the brush on the canvas, multi-layered composition, color movement of paint the artist tries to show that the world is changing right now, new realities are being formed in the space of time and chaos every second.