Valerie Kraplia

"Adore painting women, flowers, and seascapes! These are all my true inspiration".

Valerie Kraplia is an artist from Ukraine whose works explore woman life, togetherness & solitude, personal transformation, motherhood & personal memories, and also nature as a comforting serene ambiance inspiring for contemplations. The artist also adores creating floral still lives.

She primarily works in a semi-abstract manner, combining expressive abstract thick bold strokes which give extra vividness and expressiveness to paintings with finely elaborated features.

The artist loves experimenting with mixing colors, playing with textures and tools. She admits that despite using many different tools (brushes, plastic cards, film wrap, forks, napkins, her own fingers, cotton buds, and many others) her best-loved pick and real fav is a palette knife. Valerie says, "it allows creating the textures I myself love touching with hands and eyes to give those rich paintings further to you".

Valerie's career in art started in late 2010 when she first came to the studio of a well-known and very reputable artist and teacher Volodymyr Kikiniov. She studied oil painting for a total of 6 years, first under his guidance, later she attended classes of other Masters and had numerous and various masterclasses to polish her style.

Personal expo in Public Library, June 2021, Kyiv, Ukraine

"Living Planet" expo, July 2020, Kyiv, Ukraine, National Artists' House

"My inspiration" expo, September 2020, Kyiv Ukraine, National Artists' House