Early spring Painting

Julia Bondar-Kukhtina was born on July 31, 1974 in Kharkov. She graduated from KhPI in 1998 with a degree in graphic design. Since 2005 Membership in HONSKHU (MO). From 2005 to 2010 she worked in the workshop of A.G. Glukhikh, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, a student of Oreshnikov and Ugarov, as well as textbook artists of the 20th century. She made numerous creative trips to Ukraine, Russia, participated in all-Ukrainian exhibitions and open airs. Since 2007 made creative trips to Poland, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Greece. 2011 creative work at the Kharkov Theater of Musical Comedy. 2016 membership in the union of Polish artists and designers (Warsaw). The creative arsenal of 12 personal exhibitions, including abroad. Works are in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Italy, China, America, Switzerland, Greece. Currently engaged in pedagogical and creative activities in a private workshop. What they write about me: "Painter Yuliya Bondar-Kukhtina takes an active part in artistic and cultural life of Kharkov and Ukraine. Her creative activity includes a great variety of works by different genres-portraits, landscapes, still life works. All her works have different graphic, stylistic and picturesque peculiarities. Yuliya is a regular participant of painting plein air sessions in Ukraine and abroad. In her landscapes prevail intimate and panoramic works. The Geography of her works embraces the Crimea, Podil region, Kharkov region, Southern banks of the river Bugh, her mother's birth-place. Yuliya often chooses this place for her plein air works. The main characters of her works are the farmers of nearby villages of Gaivoron and Uman. Yulia is a master of foreshortening, different composition, variations. She makes her own palette variations and has her own way of writing. That is why the works written in plane air and being finished in her workshop are really picturesque and vivid. They have specific freshness of artistic view, vivid, graceful manner of writing. In the system of plane air painting Yuliya pays great attention to the light as a main specific component of the works. In her still life works prevail combinations of bright colours. As a rule, flowers in her works are written in buky, rich colour and mosaic style. Antique refined things are the best supplement to them.