Masters

Zoya is a doll-maker from Ivano-Frankivsk region. Her source of information about the folk doll was also the worldwide computer network. By means of cut and try method she has created her original technique and at present she is enthusiastically making traditional dolls for children...

Iryna is a master – doll maker from Cherkasy region. She got first information about the dolls from the Internet and later started to create them herself. She uses different natural materials: straw, cattail, fabrics, natural threads and wood...

Volodymyr is a master of wood carving from Cherkasy region. He works in the area of the traditional carving and spoon making and he is a skillful master of wood modeling. The artist is a virtuoso in different techniques of artistic carving; he creates Ukrainian souvenirs. Creative work The carver works mostly in the area of ...

Dianah is a master of embroidery and bead-weaving from Bukovyna region. She creates rushnyks, women’s and men’s costumes in the regional style and traditional bead decorations to match them...

Dariah is a master of embroidery from Chernivtsy region. She ornaments women’s and men’s shirts, rushnyks, tea-cloths, pillow-cases and pictures with delicate Bukovyna lacy nets in red, black, green and yellow colors...

Lesya is a doll-maker from Ternopil region. First she saw a motanka-doll in 2008 and she liked it very much. Having mastered the craft of creating dolls Lesya started to make remarkable dolls dedicated to the Princess Olga, Lesya Ukrainka, Taras Shevchenko’s images of women...

Yulia is a famous master of vitreous enamel (Kyiv). She keeps the traditions of her father – Olexander Boroday in part of revival of an ancient and rare art of vitreous enamel. In every possible way the artist supports popularization of decorative vitreous enamel in Ukraine and abroad: she organizes exhibitions and implements thematic projects...

These artists are creators of folk pictures from Kyiv. The young artists paint icons and Cossack Mamay in different interpretations, colors and plot conceptions. The artists treat each of their works heartily following their vocations...

Lesya is a well-known artist of decorative art from Kyiv. She creates batik (painting on silk), gobelins, carpets and gouache paintings...

Zoya is a Kyiv artist – ceramist. Her favorite technique is band ceramics used by Trypillya women. Zoya treats clay like a living being. Each day she takes it into her hands to model things hiding in the depths of human souls...

Anzhela is a master of ceramic toys from Cherkasy region. She makes whistles of different kinds: svystuntsy, svyshchiky, svystulkas, “nightingales”, reviving ancient toys of Cherkasy region, in particular of the Gromy village where local potters used to coat their works by resin...

Nina is a hereditary artist of decorative art from Chernihiv region. She weaves carpets, gobelins, creates mosaic inlays from straw. Nina inherited her talent and love for art from her father – Alexander Sayenko. In her handiworks, the master combines art traditions of her father with her own perception of colors, their shades, shapes and ...

Olga is a Cherkasy master of embroidery and pysanka-making art - not an ordinary master but the head of Cherkasy center of folk masters. Together with them, Olga is reviving shirts and rushnyks made in local traditions and also the tradition of ornamenting pysankas...

Kateryna is a master from Zaporizhzhya. She creates wonderful motanka-dolls and magnificent creatures of Mariah Prymachenko using ceraplastic. All the works are bright, warm and vivid...

Natalka is a doll-maker from Cherkasy. For over twenty years she has been creating dolls from wood, herbs, rags, corn ears, fabrics. She also teaches others to do this – conducts master-classes...

Lyudmyla is a master from Vinnytsya region. She implements her ideas in vytynankas and reflects in stone lumps...

Vasyl is a Kyiv potter born in Donetsk. In his creative work with clay he both follows the traditions and makes his own experiments. He also teaches pottery others: he teaches ceramics at a university and holds master-classes for all the willing people...

Vasyl is a graphic artist from Podillya. He works in different graphic techniques, in the genres of painting, sculpturing and vytynanka. As a basis, the artist takes national themes, moments from routine life of Ukrainian peasants and transforms all this into plane forms...

Svitlana is a pysankar from Khmelnitsky. She has been ornamenting pysankas starting from 2008 and during this period she has mastered her skills so much that in January 2010 she was qualified as a folk art master...

Tetyana is a master of decorative embroidery from Cherkasy. She investigates and revives traditional folk shawls. The master has created a series of contemporary modernized shawls. She closely cooperates with Ukrainian designers...