I was born in Ukraine, in the best city in the world - in Kyiv.

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I have got my first education at the Dragomanov Ukrainian State Pedagogical University. I have worked as a primary school teacher. This is really my vocation, since I love the laughter and hubbub of children around me, I am incredibly happy that together we can change, grow and be surprised by new things every day.

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I've been drawing all my life. And the search of my creative path began at animation courses in the Ukranimafilm studio with director D. Cherkassky. It amazed me incredibly. I can not express what I feel when I see that the characters who were just on paper are now alive and moving or talking! Unfortunately, in the 90s, the studio was closed and I went my own way.

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Passion for animation and pedagogy combined. I created the children's Animation Center "Animagia". We made children's animated cartoons using dolls, plasticine, computer animation, sand and hand-drawn moving images.  Over the years, we have expanded and grown into a "Center of Creativity" with many types of children's clubs. We have 2 branches in Kyiv. I run the Center and teach in an art studio, conduct master classes.

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The thirst for creativity, of course, led me to study academic drawing. I entered the S. Brakhnov Academy of realistic art.  You know, it's like finding what you've been looking for all your life, it's like realizing in one day that the world is colored and has an endless combination of these shades. For me, the world has become immensely big and beautiful. And I can touch it with a brush!

I can say with confidence that I got a second wind and since 2019 I began to participate in exhibitions, plan my own projects.

- Exhibition "Philosophy of Creativity ", House of artist, Kyiv, November 2020.

- Exhibition "Creating beauty", House of artist, Kyiv,  March 2021.

- Exhibition "Art is everywhere", as part of the International Festival" traces", Museum of history of Kyiv, May 2021.

- Exhibition "Independence", dedicated to the 30th anniversary of independence of Ukraine, within the framework of the International Festival" traces", Museum of the history of Kyiv, August 2021.

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And then one day my life was stopped by the war. I was forced to move to Germany. Unfortunately, I closed my favorite "Center of Creativity", because it is impossible to work and take responsibility for children's lives. I lost everything I loved so much. I lost my job. But wherever you are, and whatever happens, you still have experience, a thirst to live, and a desire not to stop. In Germany, I started all over again and plunged into what allowed me to throw out all the feelings, all the pain and all the hopes - in painting. The first artworks were more of a life-giving medicine to make me feel alive, to start talking at least to myself from a state of stiffness and muteness. And then there were more works and series appeared. And then at the exhibitions I saw how the audience reacts to my paintings, how they need to speak, not be silent, unite, rethink and carry the Ukrainian culture, show our strength, invincibility, fill up and have so much strength that they have enough of it to give it to others. From my first quiet artworks, I am ready to shout with my paintings today, because I believe in Victory, I believe in Ukraine, I believe that each of us will move the world by our actions.

- Dedicated to the anniversary of the war in Ukraine, personal exhibition "To persevere", Teloy-Mühle, Germany, Meerbusch, February 2023.

- Exhibition "Woman's Essence", Labo gallery, Germany, Berlin, April 2023.

- Exhibition "Art through the awareness", Vinnytsia Regional Art Museum, August 2023.

- Personal exhibition "There will be birds singing", Germany, Potsdam, St. Nikolaikirche, August 2023.

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 I founded charity art project ‘ The Butterfly Effect’ in Germany. It is an association of Ukrainian artists who have been accepted by Germany since the beginning of the war. Through the language of painting, we talk about the most important processes that the war has set in motion in Ukraine. It is about the fact that even the smallest actions of each of us bring about global changes in the world. We have organised several successful exhibitions in Germany and plan to keep going:

- February 2024,  галерея "Аrtrmx e.V." , Köln;

- March 2024, "Forum", Leverkusen;

- April 2024, Pavillon Brackwede, Bielefeld;

- July 2024, галерея "Katharinenhof", Bonn;

- August 2024, "Schokoladenmuseum", Köln;
- September 2024, "Ukrainische Personalpfarrei St. Wolodymyr", Hannover. 

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I hope that my website will help you discover and find those who live creatively as much as I do.

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