In my childhood everything started with colored pencils.
In kindergarten, we always got pencils to draw with, but just one. And I always got blue. Having just one color produced in me a love of graphic symbols and symbolic graphics. For me they were visual signs which interrupted space. I was always attracted to the process of drawing itself.
I also had gifts from my father who was a creative man. From childhood he trusted in me regarding serious matters. We discussed the abstract paintings of Kandinsky and the energy his pictures were saturated with.
When I enter my creative state my inner sensitivity and vision sharpens its focus, while everything connected with everyday life fades into the background. At night when I cannot fall asleep I see exciting otherworldly spaces and visions and I hurry to wake up to start working/creating/painting.
The folk culture of Ukraine definitely influenced my art. In Ukraine, they like my work but somehow I felt that my more abstract paintings were not understood and that's why they didn't find places in galleries. Then I thought of sending my work to Latvia and other foreign countries, and was surprised to receive awards and honorable mention from many of them.
In 2006 I graduated National Academy of Fine Arts & Architecture in Kiev, Ukraine with degrees in interior decoration and architecture.
