Under the Bone Sky Painting

Vira Tolmacheva is a Ukrainian abstract artist currently based in Portugal. Trained in academic art and rooted in years of teaching, she paints rhythm, emotion, and breath itself. Her intuitive works shift between fluidity and tension — a dance of line, color, and space that captures the immediacy of presence. "I paint movement—the manifestation of space. I witness it, create it, and let everything else go. My work is abstract painting, focused not on forms or narratives, but on processes: the dissolution of structure, the freedom of flow. Lines scatter, erupt, and evolve; colors sing like a choir—chaos and harmony, music made visible. Born in Crimea, where the steppe meets the sea, I learned from the earth, water, and sky. In Kharkiv, having graduated from the Academy of Design and Arts focused on Environmental Design, I embraced graphic clarity. The war forced me to abandon my fears and color brought me back to life. Today, I blend these worlds: boldly graphic precision and thoughtfully painterly intuition. I paint the present moment—a life in motion, from birth to dissolution. My work is a search for joy, and the act of sharing"