Avrora Avrora

Before I became an artist.
I was born and raised in the USSR in the South of Ukraine in 1972, all my childhood was spent on the Black Sea coast which fascinated and inspired me. The world of art was opened for me by my father, who was very fond of drawing. As a child, I had a lot of friends and they all loved art, they loved a beautiful world. Once my friend invited me to visit his father’s art studio, it all started with this. It was there that I discovered that there are people who paint beautiful, amazing things, and this is their profession and not a hobby. I was very inspired to draw a lot. I did not show my work to anyone. These were surreal stories with very deep experiences of a child who grew up in a red ghetto. I survived in the desert, breathing where it was forbidden to breathe. My inner world of children did not match the world in which I lived. Even then, in my youth, I was sure that I would be in prison for dissent. At 16, I started having problems with the KGB. In an effort to prove our independence, my friends and I planned to flee abroad. But at 18 I found out about God and believed in Christ. Love for God and a desire to serve Him became the center of my life and I abandoned painting. At that time, art seemed to...

2013 - «AVRORA» Kinburn CONTEMPORARY
2015 - «The Dreams». Gallery of Modern Art JUMP, Poltava.