"Create Yourself" Painting

I was born in 1967 and live and work in Kyiv, Ukraine. I am a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. My work is represented in private collections and galleries across Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Vietnam, the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and other countries.

My primary medium is acrylic painting. I combine hyperrealism, photorealism, and contemporary realism, adapting traditional oil-painting techniques to acrylic media. This approach allows me to achieve both precision and depth while exploring subjects such as still life, nature, the environment, and the human condition.

My work does not seek to beautify reality or escape from it. Instead, I focus on the world as it is—complex, fragile, and often contradictory. The war has profoundly transformed both my surroundings and my perception of the world. What once seemed permanent has fractured: homes, roads, plans, trust in the future, and the sense of continuity itself.

I create paintings as visual mosaics assembled from these fragments of experience. Rather than offering easy optimism, I explore the space between destruction and hope, loss and resilience, fear and the search for meaning. Through realism, symbolism, and layered imagery, I seek to connect external reality with internal psychological states.

One of my ongoing projects, “Hellish Lottery,” examines the absurdity and cruelty of chance during times of war and uncertainty. The series explores how survival often depends not on merit or justice, but on randomness. Domestic interiors interrupted by violence, silent observers, and recurring symbols of fate create a visual language that reflects anxiety, loss, and the fragile nature of human existence. The series suggests that survival is neither a reward nor a consequence of justice, but often a matter of chance.

Another ongoing project, “Life in Avatar,” is not an escape from reality but a way of processing it. By gathering fragments of experience and reassembling them into new visual structures, I search for moments of balance and meaning within an unstable world.

Creating art is my way of understanding and responding to life. Each painting is an act of reflection and transformation. Through my work, I explore questions of memory, vulnerability, resilience, and the human experience. Art is not only my profession—it is my way of life.