Kateryna Boykov

Passion to art comes from my childhood. I remember it was my number one hobby to do. When I was 6 years old, my grandmother took me to my first art class at the kids club. We were learning how to draw simple shapes and building a composition. She was definitely the only person in my life that saw my artistic abilities from a young age. She always had a special box at her house, where she kept drawing materials, just for me. Her house was very quiet and peaceful and I did not have to do any chores. So, I felt very artistic and productive. I drew, painted and quilted. I grew up spending a whole summer at the summer house. We had a lot of land to grow vegetables and fruit. So, seeing beauty in nature was always in me. I took walks into a little forest nearby and witnessed the most beautiful sunsets behind a field of corn of sunflowers. I laid in wild flowers and watched the sky move, listened to the little water stream that was always going right near where we planted cabbage. My motherland, Ukraine, definitely showed me its beauty. When I was 20, I moved to the United States. I felt, it became my second home right away. People accepted me for who I am and always appreciated my artistic abilities. I mastered the nail industry first. A...

Self-taught through online platforms