Eromenos and Erastes LGBTQ painting oil Painting

Painting silence, one moment at a time Zoryana Yaroslavivna PAVLYSHYN Zoriana Pavlyshyn is not just an artist — she is a cultural voice, a visual storyteller, and a seeker of spiritual truth. Her work bridges the sacred and the contemporary, weaving together intuition, memory, and emotional intensity into paintings that speak with quiet power. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1971, Zoriana studied journalism at Ivan Franko National University before pursuing fine art under the mentorship of Professor Volodymyr Cherkasov, a Merited Artist of Ukraine. She also trained in iconography at the sacred art studio of St. George’s Cathedral. Her artistic journey spans oil painting, iconography, abstract compositions, and symbolic portraiture, each infused with philosophical depth and emotional resonance. Zoriana’s paintings often merge traditional Christian motifs with modern expression, exploring themes of love, loss, feminine strength, spiritual pain, and hope. She believes that Ukrainian iconography can evolve into a new current of contemporary art, and she actively contributes to this vision through international sacred art symposiums and exhibitions. She is the founder of Armigera Art Gallery, director of the MediaStar Information Agency, curator of the “Top 100 Influential People of Lviv Region” project, and a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and the Association of Iconographers named after St. Cyprian. Her works are held in museums, galleries, and private collections, and are represented globally through Saatchi Art, where she brings Ukrainian visual culture to an international audience. “To paint is not to depict reality — it is to create a new one,” she says. And that new reality is honest, luminous, and deeply human.