Звонкий лес #artistsupportpledge (2017) Painting by Olga Pichkurova

Born in 1988 in the city of Zaporozhye, Ukraine.

Oil and acrylic paintings on canvas.

Before the war, my life was like a fairy tale. There were many amazing events, amazing people - clients, partners and students, a favorite thing - painting, and a lot of meaning - dazzling, bright, real.

Of course, this was not always the case - 13 years ago I worked as a journalist, studied at the 3rd year in the profile, did not even try to draw.

And then I had a dream in which I became an artist, and there was so much happiness in it - impossible, but so desired, and I changed everything: I left the institute, changed jobs.

I was preparing for a year to enter the Academy of Arts, not even hoping that it was possible, I entered, graduated, studied with excellent masters additionally, and now, “went into the artists”. Now all this is long in the past, and the doubts of those years cause a smile, because the dream has long become a reality for me - many paintings and hundreds of satisfied customers who write how their life has changed, how their house was filled with comfort, corga my paintings appeared in it . Many clients have become regulars and have been buying paintings from me for ten or more years.Before the war, I sold paintings through partner stores and galleries in Zaporozhye and Odessa, online through galleries and Instagram, my works in 6 countries around the world. I also taught offline more than two thousand students, adults and children, in my Art-Izyum studio, which turned 9 years old in November 2021, and is now closed. For 14 years of my work as an artist, there were also a dozen exhibitions, plein air. Winning competitions, interior painting projects, a scientific experiment when it turned out that it was possible to measure the positive impact of paintings painted according to my method on people and space.

But the main thing that, I hope, will remain with me until my last breath is the magic at my fingertips, which I share in my works - about happiness, harmony, eternal values, Motherland and miracles. "Painting is freedom and pleasure embodied on canvas for hundreds of years." “The method of harmonizing the space, according to which I paint, includes the proportions of the Golden Section, which have a beneficial effect on the person and the room in which he is located; trendy color combinations, selected according to the principle of art therapy, techniques that help strengthen the connection between the two hemispheres, establish "friendship" between the conscious and unconscious parts of our "I", and therefore give insights, inspiration and a special lightness in which you can " dive "like in the sea, every morning for a cup of coffee, for example"

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1988
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• Groups: Ukrainian Contemporary Artists