Liudmyla Vasylchuk

I am an artist who once dreamed of becoming one. I was born and raised in a small village in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine, where I spent hours watching my uncle paint and wanted to do the same. There was no art school in my village, so I learned by observing him, then by experimenting on my own — first with pencils and markers in a notebook, later with gouache on paper boards. I remember the joy when something turned out well and the quiet sadness when it didn’t.

I once dreamed of studying to be an artist, but fear held me back — I was afraid I wouldn’t succeed. So I chose to study Interior Design instead. I earned a Master’s degree in Design, but never worked as a designer, because the artist inside me always wanted to create with my hands. For a while, I was deeply fascinated by epoxy resin — it’s also a wonderful form of art that gave me valuable experience and opened a new world for me. But I kept being drawn back to acrylics, and eventually, I stopped resisting.

Now I live near Kyiv, surrounded by light, trees, and open space. I paint everywhere — at home, by the window, or outside in nature. Light is essential for me; I need to feel harmony with the place I paint in, because that harmony always shows up on the canvas....

2023 — Abstract painting workshops, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 — Workshops on epoxy resin art, Kyiv, Ukraine (online)
2013-2018 — Master’s Degree in Design (Interior Designer, Lecturer qualification) — Kyiv, Ukraine