Pyrogoscha in Kyiv. Painting

I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and now I live here. I am a figurative painter.My inspiration comes from the traditional cultural elements and the beauty everywhere. My inspirations come from nature,flowers,animals, beauty, the human body. I studied Art in The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. My teachers was - V. I. Kovtonyuk, V. Virodova - Gauthier, A. Belyansky, A. Tverdyy, A. Zorko , V. Gurin. I carefully studying works of famous painters of the past, above all, those of Auguste Renoir, Eduard Mane, Van Gouge, Modegliani, Clode Monet, John Singer Sargent, Sorolla y Bastida, Anders Zorn, Fedor Krychevsky, Oleksandr Murashko, Oleksiy Novakivsky and others. Many of my paintings depict the plants and flowers growing in my garden.