Nataliia Lipetska

Hello! My name is Nataliia Lipetska, and I come from a family of artists.
My grandfather painted, my mother created entire worlds with her imagination – and I? I drew everywhere: on the margins of school notebooks, and secretly on the walls at home.

I studied at an art school as a child, but my most important teacher was my mother – a deeply creative soul who taught me to see beauty in small, overlooked things: a crack in a cup, a shadow on the floor, a wrinkle on a forehead.

Like many, I once believed you couldn’t make a living from art.
So I worked in an office – but even there, art never let me go. I sketched during meetings, on calendars, even on sticky notes. It was clear: creativity was not just a hobby. It was my voice.

One day, I understood something deeply:
Without art, I exist – but I don’t truly live.

That was the moment I returned to the canvas. This time, for good.

For me, art is a way to capture the fleeting, reveal the unseen, and remind us all that we are truly alive.
It is visual poetry – each person reads it differently, but everyone feels it.

In a world shaped by noise, speed, and algorithms, I believe artists have a vital role:
To slow time. To speak from the heart.
To say, “Look – there is beauty here. Ca...