Natalia Kruchkevych

Natalia Kruchkevych is ukrainian artist, living and working in Paris. She is a painter of contemporary landscapes, still lives and genre scenes. Her works are presented in private collections in France, Luxembourg, USA, China, Ukraine.
Also in art collections of La Salle Art Museum (Philadelphia, USA), Ukrainian Museum (New York, USA), National museum in Lviv (Ukraine), Antonovych Palace of Arts (Lviv, Ukraine). Galeria Olena Zamostian (Kyev, Ukraine), and others.
"When I paint, I do not give myself a task. My most important motivation is to first see what I will paint. I only paint what I have seen. I must see my subject within me so that I can try to recreate the impression it leaves on me. I do not wish to merely create a photo, but rather to reproduce the inspiration that nature has breathed into the subject. Thus, all the components in nature (colors, shapes, etc.) are transformed in the painting, where they create their own significance. The importance of color lies in contrasting colors or the addition of new colors, and shapes combine into a new form and become whole. A painting is an universe that exists independently, separately from me. Once it is painted, I see it differently from when I was painting it. A paintin...

Natalia Kruchkevych was born in Lviv, Ukraine. She graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Lviv in 1996. Natalia Kruchkevych is a painter of contemporary landscapes, still life and genre scenes. Her work is represented in private collections in France, Luxembourg, Germany, United States, China, Ukraine. And also in public collections such as: La Salle University (USA), Ukrainian Museum
in New York, National Museum of Lviv (Ukraine), Olena Zamostian Gallery (NaUKMA, Kiev). Member of the Taylor Foundation.
Represented by the Galerie Cécile Dufay in Paris.