Tamara Budai

With gratitude to my daughter.
Without her, this journey might never have begun.


I am a self-taught artist. My artistic practice has evolved outside formal academic training, shaped by observation, research, and personal experience. For more than thirty years, I worked in the fields of law and finance, where I learned to think systematically, recognize connections, and search for the inner logic of complex processes. Today, this experience naturally continues to live in my art.

I was born in Ukraine and today live between Ukraine and Europe. The personal experience of displacement and rethinking my place in the world has become part of my artistic journey, but it does not define it completely. Rather, it has strengthened my interest in the questions that have long been at the center of my work: memory, identity, belonging, and the invisible connections that unite human beings with the world around them.

I am interested not so much in depicting reality as in exploring its inner structures — those that cannot be seen directly but can be deeply felt. Nature, memory, personal mythology, and symbols become interconnected elements in my work, allowing me to explore the subtle spaces between the visible world and the inner landscapes ...

- Faculty of Restoration
State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture,
Odessa, Ukraine

- Faculty of Jurisprudence
Odesa Mechnikov National University,
Odessa, Ukraine

- Degree of Financial Analyst and Management, Academy of Business Ernst and Young Global limited,
Great Britain; Studying Center of the Russian Chamber of Auditors.