Irpin. The Affected Area Print

Life is constant movement in a circle of changes. Through art I am looking for a strength for life, thanks to art my mind acquires creative energy and seeks unique aesthetic pursuits in the depths of spiritual truths. Each graphic work is a study of own subconscious, an intuitive research of aesthetic ideal. The power of imagination tends to rethink the surrounding reality and to create a parallel dimension in which the ordinary is reborn into the unusual, and artistic images exist in a special space and time, dominated by a harmonious world of nature: plants, animals, celestial bodies, revealing the mystery of magical reality. - - - - - - - - - - - - Maryna Vashchenko was born and lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a young active Ukrainian artist working in several styles: namely the Pictorial and Graphic Arts and Vytynanky (papercutting). Maryna graduated from M. Boychuk Kyiv’s State Academy of Arts and Design, reading Arts and Crafts; post-graduating from Lviv’s National Academy of Arts. Furthermore, Maryna published several articles on the history of Ukrainian Monumental Arts of the Twentieth Century. In 2008 Maryna became a member of the Ukrainian Artists Union, Graphic Arts section. And from 2009 to date, Maryna lectures at the M. Boychuk Academy and arranges professional exhibitions of Graphic Art and Vytynanky. Maryna’s artwork has been exhibited numerously in Ukraine and abroad, featuring more than ten personal exhibitions from 2008 to 2020. She is also organising numerous students and lecturers collective exhibitions from 2014. Her work attracts interest from both the public and specialists alike and has been documented in articles and features in magazines such as Ukrainian Decorative Crafts History. In 2019 Maryna won the Grand Prix of Independent Interactive Mystical Festival “Nymph” for the graphic embodiment of Nilolay Gogol’s motives of Wonders of Dykanka. In 2016 Maryna obtained a first rank diploma for participation in the All Ukrainian Exhibition Competition of the Fine and Decorative Arts, the International Foundation of the National Academy of Arts, Ukraine. The same year also awarded the Ukrainian National Art Academy International Foundation’s First Category diploma and Ukrainian Abstract Art Exhibition ART-AKT Diploma for visualisation of the image by a young artist, at the Centre for Culture and Arts Vernissage, Chernivtsi, Ukraine.