Megaloceros giganteus, Irish Elk Painting

Hello, dear nature art lover. My name is Katya. I'm Ukrainian paleo, wildlife and botanical illustrator, member of UK and American Society of Botanical Artists. I am inspired by nature in all its demonstrations - whether it is the first leaf that opens in spring or ammonite dissected from stone, which is millions of years old. Filling up inspiration from nature, it is not surprising that the main direction of my art is a natural history illustration. I am from Kharkiv, so my first contact with natural curiosities was in Kharkiv Natural history museum. I was a child, the “Jurassic Park” just came out, so of course I was looking for dinosaurs, but they weren't there. I asked a museum guide “where are the dinosaurs?” - “probably they didn’t live here" he replied. I thought it was sad, but it really interested me. After almost 30 years I returned to the fossils and wildlife of Ukraine and Europe as a whole. So now my paleo and entomology illustrations can soon be seen in the Ukrainian National Museum of Nature. Entomology exhibition of that museum inspired for my first watercolor collection of moths. One of them, Apantesis virguncula, was presented at the "Unbreakable Flowers" exhibition and was awarded by Billy Showell. So I decided to draw an expanded collection not only exotic specimens, but also miniature masterpieces of Ukrainian and European nature. Influenced by: nature itself, because it’s the best artist, Zdeněk Burian, Charles Robert Knight, Georgia Totto O'Keeffe