Heaven On Earth

Before I Became an Artist
I was born in 1972 in southern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. My childhood was shaped by the shores of the Black Sea, whose beauty and vastness inspired me from an early age.

My father, who loved drawing, introduced me to the world of art. One day a friend invited me to visit his father's studio, and that experience changed everything. For the first time, I discovered that creating beautiful and meaningful works could be more than a hobby—it could be a life's vocation.

I began drawing obsessively, though I showed my work to no one. My early paintings were surreal stories born from the inner struggles of a child growing up in the restrictive atmosphere of the Soviet era. The world within me did not correspond to the world around me. Even as a teenager, I felt like an outsider, convinced that independent thinking could lead to persecution.

At sixteen, I encountered difficulties with the KGB. Together with friends, I even dreamed of escaping abroad in search of freedom. But at eighteen, my life changed completely when I discovered faith in Christ. Love for God and the desire to serve Him became the center of my existence. Art suddenly seemed insignificant. In a passionate act of dedication, I carr...

2023- “Follow the Light” art P.art club. Perchtoldsdorf Austria.
2023 - An evening commemorating the anniversary of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. art P.art club. Perchtoldsdorf Austria.
2022 - “Icons - a hopeful glimpse of heaven” Perchtoldsdorf Austria.
2021 - H-Club “Christmas Angels” Lesnyky, Kyiv region
2020 - H-Club “Gold on Blue or Icons Born of Flame”Lesnyky, Kyiv
2019 - “Face to Miracles” Center for Ukrainian Culture and Arts, Kyiv
2019 - “The Power of Love” Gallery House of Encounters, Eisenstadt, Austria
2019 - “Icon as Art” Lesya Ukrainka Museum, Kyiv
2018 - “I was in prison...” Center of Ukrainian Culture and Arts, Kyiv
2018 - “Icon as Art” Lesya Ukrainka Museum, Kyiv
2017 - Kyiv National University “Merciful Mother” named after Taras Shevchenko
2016 - “Journey to the Light” Yaremche Museum of Ethnography and Ecology of the Carpathian Region, Yaremche
2016 - “Street Meetings” Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Folk Life, Uzhhorod
2016 - “BEGINNING””Ivan Honchar Museum”, Kyiv
2015 - “Come and See the Invisible” Gallery of Contemporary Art JUMP, Poltava
2015 - “Let every breath praise the Lord” of the Yosaphat Kobrynsky National Museum of Folk Art of the Hutsul Region and Pokuttia...