Nastka Bydan

Being in an evacuation with a small child, I explore the theme of home, comfort and a safe place in the children's language of a fairy-tale illustration.
Using the media that was lying around in the evacuee's backpack: paper and a black pen.
I - the mother tells her son that it is possible to cope with the loss of a physical home, because home is something that is always with you. These are values, traditions and stories. You can easily take them in your luggage and travel the world until there is peace at home. Having become an intermediary between the child and the real world, I wonder exactly what values should be put in this baggage and how exactly to build a home inside myself.
Second part is surrealistic self-reflactions about woman roles in modern society in specific conditions.
These conditions are military emigration and independent motherhood, the artistic sphere of activity.
How to build a space for art in a hotel room for immigrants? How to build the concept of a native home without a home for a child?
How to integrate into a new social and cultural environment, while civilians are being killed at home?
That the qustions i take to my artreflactions.

Self-educated.
Online courses of human anatomy for painters from Alexander Rugkin.
Maister-class 'Intuitive painting' learning right hemisphere painting techniques.

Group exhibition "WelcomeUkraine" spring of 2023 at the Portheimka Gallery, Prague Czech Republic

Group exhibition "Art for Ukraine" september 2023 at the Prague City Hall Prague, Czech Republic

Personal exibition "Second Home" january 2024 Common hall Vinor, Prague Czech Republic