Yevhen Velganenko

I am a Ukrainian artist based near Kyiv. My work is centered on oil painting, with a particular interest in landscapes, small towns, rural architecture, and the changing character of nature. Alongside my painting practice, I work professionally as a 2D artist in the game industry...
I prefer to work directly from observation whenever possible. Rather than reproducing a place precisely, I try to capture its atmosphere, light, color, and the impression it leaves behind. I often use thick, expressive brushstrokes and layers of paint, allowing the texture itself to become part of the image.

Many of my paintings are connected to places I have traveled through in Ukraine and beyond — mountains, villages, rivers, winter landscapes, and quiet places encountered along the way.

For me, painting is a way of preserving a moment and my personal experience of a place.

2010–2014 — National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine. Institute of Publishing and Printing — Graphic Arts.

2014 — Cold Sea, group exhibition, Minus 4 Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. Painting and graphic works created during a winter plein-air trip to Crimea.