Maryna Kovalchuk

Originally from Crimea, Ukraine, and now living in Florida, Maryna creates paintings about memory, loss, light, and belonging. The sea has always been central to her life — first the Black Sea of her childhood, and now the Atlantic Ocean near her new home. Between these two shores lives much of her work.
Her paintings are filled with birds, flowers, palms, ocean light, and fragments of nature, but beneath their beauty is a deeper story: the experience of leaving home, carrying it within oneself, and trying to build a life without losing the place that shaped the soul.
Maryna’s work often feels tender and luminous, yet it is never simply decorative. It carries the quiet tension between beauty and grief, safety and longing, memory and survival. Through oil paint, texture, and sometimes embroidery, she transforms personal history into poetic visual language.
For Maryna, painting is a way to remember, to heal, and to keep a connection with what cannot be physically returned to. Her art invites viewers into a world where light becomes memory, nature becomes refuge, and beauty becomes an act of resilience.

Master degree of visual arts.

Past:
2009 - Yalta(Ukraine) Collective exhibition.
2013 - Kyiv(Ukraine). Dim kavy. Personal exhibition.
2016 - Lviv (Ukraine) Art space” Schos tsikave”. Personal exhibition.
2021 - Kyiv (Ukraine) Panchyshyn Art gallery. Collective exhibition.
2021 - Lviv (Ukraine) Art gallery “Svytovid”. Personal exhibition.
2022 - Jacksonville, FL (USA) The Art Center. Collective exhibition "Pick a Color".
2022 -Chicago, IL OMWP STUDIOS. Preserve Ukrainian Culture Rebuild Ukraine Fundraiser. Collective exhibition.
2023 - Jacksonville, FL Ukraine Slava Cafe. Personal exhibition.
2024 - present days - Jacksonville, FL Bethel Art Gallery.
2025 - Jax Fuse Art Festival
2025 - MOCA (Jacksonville)
2026 - Babs’lab Artistic hub (group juried exhibition) Winner - 1st place (Whimsical theme)
2026 - Old Town Art Show (St.Augustine, Fl)
2026 - St.Johns River Art festival (Sanford, FL)
2026 - Babs’lab artistic hub “On my own terms”, group exhibition
2026 - The Petite Jax "Small walls", group exhibition
2026 - resident of Art Collective gallery (St. Augustine)