Masters

Roman is a master – doll-maker from Kyiv region. He makes children’s toys from pine boards. Among his works, horses prevail: rocking horses, horses on wheels or sticks. His toys are kind, warm and simple for little children’s perception...

Yulia is a master of the folk doll from Dnipropetrivsk region. She discovered the folk doll through the monitor screen: she first saw motankas in the Internet. The master decided to learn this craft because both grown-ups and children enjoy the dolls...

Oksana is a doll-maker and a pysankar from Lviv. For nearly twenty years she has traditionally been ornamenting pysankas for the Easter. As for dolls, the master became interested in them not long ago but devotedly and with great inspiration...

Mariah is a master from Lviv region. She is occupied in creative work in lots of areas: making pysankas, folk dolls, straw spiders, vytynankas, painting, graphic arts, painting on fabrics, poetry and artistic photography. She copes with all this and she is a success in everything...

Nadiya is a master of embroidery from Ivano-Frankivsk region. During her entire life she has been occupied in Creative work using a needle with a thread. She embroiders traditional clothes, rushnyks, tea-cloths, icons and pictures.

Tetyana is a master of traditional folk dolls from Volhynia. Within a very short period she learned to create characteristic Ukrainian dolls. She gives each one a name and sews corresponding luxurious clothes for them.

Valentyna is a doll-maker from Kyiv. Once, she received a motanka as a present and later started creating such dolls herself. She says that the woman’s internal strength is transferred to the doll that is why dolls of each master are unique.

Anton is a potter from Ivano-Frankivsk region. He is interested in Hutsul and Trypillya themes. The master works at developing his own Pokuttya style which would be easily recognized by people as “Pokuttya ceramics”.

In spite of her young age, this master from Ternopil has extensive experience in needlework: she makes embroideries, creates knot-dolls in national costumes from fabrics and reconstructs ancient Ukrainian folk decorations from beads.

Valentyna is a master of Petrykivka decorative painting from Dnipropetrovs'k region. For more than thirty years she has been ornamenting decorations and houseware – wooden and metal - by “Petrykivka” flowers. She also paints pictures on paper.

Olha is an artist from Ternopil. She is occupied in gobelin weaving. The master chooses nature, customs, interesting characters and ceremonial events of her native region as themes for her works.

Olha is a master and an artist from Volhynia. She paints pysankas with ornaments of her native region. She is also a professional in painting and batik (fabric painting).

Mykhailo is a well-known embroiderer from Ternopil region. He is a master of a great number of embroidery techniques using which he decorates shirts, rushnyks, tea-cloths and runners. Besides, the master has one of the largest collections of folk embroidery patterns of Podillya, Bukovyna, Gutsul and Boykiv regions.

Dariah is a sculptor and a vytynankar from Vinnytsya region. She works with stone, wood, metals, ceramics and paper. The master creates her works without any sketches – realizing her ideas, thoughts and mood in the materials.

Rostyslav is an artist and a master from Ternopyl. All the time free from his official work Rostyslav devotes to his favorite occupation – making dryapankas (other names: shkryobankas, skryobankas).

Olexander is a Kyiv master of one of the most ancient folk arts – withe weaving. Archeologists say this craft had appeared much earlier than pottery, weaving, wood and metal processing did – back during the Stone Age.

Vira is a master of the art of the pysanka, and is well-known among pysankary. She has authored several books about pysanky, and seeks out and preserves traditional pysanka designs. Vira has over 3000 pysanky in her pysanka collection, all of which she has written herself from ancient regional Ukrainian patterns.

Olexander is a well-known master of decorative weaving and painting on glass from Vinnytsya. He creates gobelins, paints icons and folk pictures. The author takes images for his works from Ukrainian legends, stories and beliefs.

Yaroaslava is an artist from Lutsk. Beside her attraction to painting and graphic arts, she creates different anecdotal vytynankas. Themes of her works are connected with Ukrainian culture, customs, mythology and relations between the man and the universe.

This master from Cherkasy region weaves didukhs of different forms and contents. Beside the fact that she mastered this craft not long ago (in autumn 2009) her sheaves are made following all the traditional structures and rules.