Olesia Lickona

Olesia Lickona is a contemporary figurative and symbolist artist working with traditional media. She was trained in graphic design and spent years in private studios of academic drawing, watercolor and textile painting, which formed her classical foundation and tactile approach to surface and colour.

"I explore the theme of liminality: the transitions between inner and outer worlds, body and space, memory and the present. In my work, animal figures and fragments of the human body become not characters in a narrative, but markers of emotional states - as if the viewer had entered a dreamlike room where familiar objects suddenly take on symbolic meaning.
I describe what I do with the word "hiraeth". This Welsh term expresses a deep, soulful longing for a home that may never have existed, for places we can no longer return to but that continue to live within us. For me, "hiraeth" is the feeling of being “in between”: when everything seems familiar, yet the landscape of the soul is quietly shifting. My paintings are about this inner journey, about gentle melancholy, tenderness, solitude, and the anticipation of something magical."

2015-2018 Faculty of Graphic Design at the College of the Crimean Humanitarian University.
Crimea

2013- 2019 Private lessons at the Academic drawing and Watercolor studio
Crimea

2008-2019 Private art studio lessons focused on composition and the development of visual ideas
Crimea