"Still life" Painting

Mykola Kozlovsky is a Ukrainian contemporary artist working in landscape, non-figurative, and abstract painting. He was born in 1994 in the village of Stupnytsia, Lviv region, Ukraine. Raised in a rural environment surrounded by forests, fields, changing seasons, and natural light, he developed an early sensitivity to landscape, color, and organic form — elements that later became central to his artistic language. Kozlovsky originally studied icon painting and religious art. This background influenced his understanding of composition, spatial balance, rhythm, and the meditative quality of painting. At the same time, his work gradually moved away from representation toward a more open and intuitive visual structure. Landscape remains an important source of inspiration, though not as direct depiction. In his work, nature becomes a field of relationships between color, movement, atmosphere, and form. He is interested not in copying reality, but in constructing harmonious painterly systems similar to the balance found in nature itself. Color plays the central role in his paintings. Rather than mechanically mixing pigments, he often works through optical interaction and juxtaposition of pure or minimally mixed colors. Sunlight, vegetation, changing weather, shadows, and the slow transformation of organic forms strongly influence his perception of painting. His abstraction is connected to the continuous movement and transformation of matter in space and time. A tree growing from a seed, shaped by sunlight, gravity, wind, and soil, eventually changes, dries, disappears, and returns to nature through another cycle of life. These processes form the basis of his abstract perception. For the artist, form exists before narrative. His paintings avoid direct illustration and instead develop as associative structures built through rhythm, texture, color, and spatial tension. Because of this, he considers his work close to abstraction, though not entirely detached from memory, landscape, or lived experience. After a pause from painting caused by military service in the Ukrainian army, Kozlovsky returned to artistic practice through digital painting as soon as circumstances made it possible. Today he works both with traditional materials and digital media, treating digital painting not as reproduction, but as an independent form of contemporary art.