Daria Zavadenko

I am a landscape painter based in Kyiv. I was born in Molodohvardeysk, in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. My connection with the landscapes of this region continues to shape my understanding of place, memory, and belonging.

Landscape, for me, is not a destination but a condition of seeing. I return to the same motifs repeatedly, not to describe a particular place, but to understand how light, colour, and atmosphere shape our experience of it. I am drawn to the moment when fragments of colour and gesture begin to coalesce into the image of a landscape, somewhere between abstraction and recognition. Rather than documenting nature, I explore how direct observation gives way to memory.

Working primarily in oil on board, I use palette knives and brushes to build layered, tactile surfaces through broad gestures, rich impasto, and deliberate reduction. My ongoing Atmospheric Studies series explores a recurring compositional structure in which shifting skies are balanced by the stillness of the earth. Through repetition and variation, I investigate how changes in light, colour, and atmosphere can transform our perception of the same visual structure.

Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, Ukraine
International Relations, 2009–2014

Private Painting Studies with Ukrainian Artists
Individual instruction in painting, composition, colour, light, and painterly technique

10th All Ukrainian Painting Triennial,
Central Exhibition Hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine,
June 19, 2025 - July 20, 2025

All-Ukrainian Cultural and Artistic Project Art of Millennia. Ukraine in Search of Origins
Central House of Artists, National Union of Artists of Ukraine
August 14 – August 31, 2025