Olena Romashkina

Olena Romashkina is a Ukrainian contemporary artist whose intuitive paintings explore emotion, movement and hidden stories through line, color and intricate detail.
Her visual language is built from loose, expressive lines and layers of small forms that often create a fractal-like sense of depth. Flowers, animals and everyday objects become starting points for something less literal — a glimpse of a feeling, a memory or an imagined world.
Romashkina rarely begins with a fixed image in mind. She allows the painting to develop intuitively, responding to color, rhythm, music and unexpected shapes that appear on the surface. A small detail can become the beginning of an entire visual story.
Her approach to painting was influenced by her grandmother. As a child, Romashkina was fascinated when her grandmother, who had never considered herself able to draw, created a simple figure from circles and lines. That small moment became the beginning of her own artistic journey.
Today, line has become one of the artist's most recognizable elements — a kind of visual handwriting through which she explores light, shadow, movement and emotion.
Romashkina studied at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing and has exhibited in Ukraine, Germany and Slovenia....

Ukrainian Academy of Printing (UAD).

All-Ukrainian Group exhibition - Ukraine 2026

Joint exhibition *Bückeburg en plein air * 2022 Germany
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Exhibition * Sundust *
Center For Contemporary Art 2022 Slovenia

Personal exhibition * Blue and more *
Hundertwasser Bahnhof Uelzen 2021 Germany

• Kunstpreis Worpswede 2017 | AUTO | MACHT | MOBILITAT | Einbeck, 2017, Germany.

• International exhibition dedicated to AN Kuindzhi | 2017 | ArtLux Arts Center Mariupol | Ukraine.

• All-Ukrainian exhibition dedicated to the artist's day, exhibition hall in the Central House of Artists of the National Union of Artists | 2017, Kiev, Ukraine.

• Third All-Ukrainian Triennial of Abstract Painting ART-AKT, 2017, center of culture "Vernissage" | Chernivtsi | Ukraine.

• All-Ukrainian art exhibition dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, an exhibition hall in the Central House of Artists of the National Union of Artists | 2016 | Kiev | Ukraine.

• Personal exhibition "Free sensations" | 2016 | Italian courtyard | Lviv | Ukraine.