Anna Bondar
Kyiv, Ukraine
I'm glad to get such good feedback and attention from you, and it means even more now that it shows that I'm not doing it for nothing.
Since the war started, my world has changed, and it was hard for me to figure out if I could still paint. For the first 20 days of the war, we stayed in the Kyiv region and heard explosions several times a day, but we still hoped that this crime would end soon.
We couldn't afford to stay in Ukraine because I'm pregnant. My maternity hospital, where I was going to give birth, was also hit by rockets, so I couldn't even get a simple medical checkup.
Now I'm in Spain, where I'm safe, and all of my defenses have been turned off. It was only in Spain that I was able to fully understand what horrible things happened there, so I shut myself in and started painting as many pictures as I could because I had enough strength at the time.
I made more works during my first outburst than I had in the past few years. It was like a thirst, and I couldn't stop drawing until I had shown everything I wanted to. My whole life changed after the war. My future was taken from me for good. But for me, it was a big deal to find out that I am the same person no matter where I am. This is what my series is about: how a person is connected to his home country and how that affects his happiness and sense of self.
It is very important to say that when I first got to Spain, I didn't start painting for a long time because I kept hoping I would go home soon, even though I missed my canvases and oils. My small but important sale on the artmajeur site was the main reason I decided to buy materials and get back to work. Since the painting I bought was in Ukraine, I made a new miniature painting here that was even more beautiful and had a deeper meaning.
Marketplaces like artmajeur are very important to me because they give me a chance to show my work to people who know about art and don't limit me in how I can express myself. These squares are important to the growth of both the artist and the collector.
I would like to tell my future collectors that art is the only truth because history is written by the winner. Now, through my paintings, real hunters have a one-of-a-kind chance to buy a true story from a first person.
Anna Bondar
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