Breathing (2022) Painting by Valeriia Radziievska

In childhood I used to draw mostly with pencils - as the easiest way to give shape to my imaginary images. Later, I realized that I can visualize life, see it in colors and shapes. More later, I recognized that the colors and shapes of the nature are the greatest perfection of the surrounding reality. They have variance, peace, sadness, silence, catharsis, mystery and story.

I have been working with the words for a long time. I studied literature and worked as a journalist. Until I allowed myself to express feelings and outlook using paints.

In April 2015 I took a piece of paper and a few pieces of dry pastels and painted clouds. They hadn't been given rest to my mind for a few weeks: it was a spring "exodus" of clouds from the sky. They moved like a great winter blanket. And they were shined by the sun.

Since then I've been painting on canvas with oil paints. For me it is a process of deep communication with myself and the world.

I studied the art of oil painting privately with Ukrainian artists whose art inspired me to study the form and color.

I paint the most perfect forms created by nature - the sea element, people, plants. Everything in which there is primal wildness, freedom, and therefore beauty. I love the play of the sun on human face, flower petals and water. I like to look for my own memories on unfamiliar streets or forest roads. Splashes of paint on canvas bring me back to that reality.

Portrait is a special sphere. The most important are eyes for me. Too alive, too talkative.

I would call my art aesthetic. There is an important health effect in this. Forms around are no less deep then our subconscious. They give some code a harmonious organization. Tuning in to this algorithm we can bring harmony back into our inner world.

I have created more than one hundred oil paintings. Some of them are in private collections in Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden and the USA.

Solo exhibitions

2021
Solo Ballet Exhibition / October Palace - Kyiv, Ukraine2021
Summer in Rainbow Colors / Stara Uman Gallery, Nebesnoji Sotni str., 31 - Uman, Ukraine2021
Stara Uman Gallery Exhinition / Stara Uman Gallery, Nebesnoji Sotni str., 31 - Uman, Ukraine2020
Solo Sofa Hub Exhibition / Сreative Space Sofa Hub, Dzherelna str., 1 - Uman, Ukraine2019
Balcony Event and Art Space Exhibition / Svobody Ave., 37/8 - Lviv, Ukraine

Group exhibition

2021
The Art of Portrait / Stara Uman Gallery, Nebesnoji Sotni str., 31 - Uman, Ukraine  

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1982
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Ukrainian Contemporary Artists