Sunny day Print

IVAN DIDYK (born in 1951) - famous Transcarpathian painter and graphic artist. Honoured artist of Ukraine. Twice laureate of the Regional Prize named after Y. Bokshai and A. Erdeli in fine art. He graduated from Uzhhorod School of Applied Art (1970) and Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (1975). Since 1975 he has been teaching at Uzhhorod College of Arts named after A. Erdeli and Transcarpathian Art Academy. Since 1993 he has been the member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. The artist is the permanent participant of the regional, national and international (Germany, Slovakia, Poland, France, Hungary) art exhibitions and plein-airs. He is the author of over a dozen personal exhibitions. The artist masterfully and skilfully works in many painting techniques. They are oil and acrylic painting, painting on glass, watercolour, dry pastel. The genre preferences of the artist are urban and natural landscapes, still lifes, folk and church architecture, religious subjects, thematic abstractions. His works have a particular recognizable style, harmonious composition and colours, imbued with the aesthetics of high modernism, warmth, serenity and poise.