Masters

Victoria has been involved in various crafts since she was a child. Her grandmother taught her how to embroider when she was eight and she embroidered traditional Ukrainian patterns on the pillows, towels and shirts. She continued to hone her craft, studying the traditional techniques of painting Easter eggs. Being a student, she acquainted with ...

Tetyana Grytsay is one of the most expressive Ukrainian masters of decorative painting on glass and stained glass painting (panels). Member of the National Union of Ukrainian Artists since 2000.

Masters from Lviv region are working on the revival of traditional Yavoriv toys. Prototypes of their work are folk toys that are preserved in the collections of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Ethnographic Museum in Lviv, other museums and private collections. Besides that, they are trying to use their own creativity in this ...

Yurko is a master of traditional Ukrainian kobza-kind musical instruments. He makes wheel fiddles (a hurdy-gurdy) starosvitska (smaller) banduras, Veresayev kobzas and krylovidni (“wing-shaped”) gusli – an ancient string musical instrument...

Znanna is a Kyiv potter and a “master of clay”. She creates all kinds of crockery: jugs, plates, cups for coffee and tea, vases, candlesticks, decorations. By means of weaving from clay the master creates unique things decorated by different ornaments...

Creative work of this master from Sumy region is many-sided. She models from clay, embroiders, cuts vytynankas from paper, makes folk dolls and Ukrainian costumes. She also teaches children in the local art school all this. The master has a large collection of ceremonial rushnyks.

Svitana is a master of embroidery and folk dolls from Kyiv region. She creates real Ukrainian souvenirs: embroidered bags for mobiles, different tiny dolls, bags in ethnic style, and in addition to all this she makes wooden amulets with ancient Slavic symbols.

Natalya is a master of embroidery from Cherkasy region. She makes copies of ancient rushnyks, shirts; reproduces original ornamental compositions as patterns in electronic formats; investigates embroidery in its every manifestation.

Lyudmyla is a master from Kyiv. She works creatively in several areas of folk arts: vytynanka, pysanka ornamenting, folk doll. This master’s handiworks, vytynankas in particular, were many times used for decoration of the capital’s stages during different art events.

Natalia is an artist from Poltava. She paints on glass. The themes of her works are various pieces of still life, landscapes and compositions. Through them, the artist discloses rites and customs of the Ukrainian people, their values and sacred objects.

Nila is a master of straw weaving from Cherkasy region. From straw that she grows on her own she weaves women’s and men’s head-dresses, decorations, bags and flowers. Nila learned this craft from an old neighbor when in her childhood.

Tetyana is a master of straw-weaving from Luhans’k. She weaves her handiworks from rye and wheat straw. Most of all the master likes to create flowers of different shapes and decorations.

Svitlana is an artist and a master of decorative arts and crafts from Donetsk region. Since 2008 she has been occupied in straw inlays – she depicts folk ornaments, different kinds of birds, urban views etc.

Olha is a Cherkasy master of ornamented ceramic toy. From white clay, she makes shapes of animals, birds, marvelous creatures and decorates them by tempera paints. She has developed an original style for which she was inspired by the works of Mariah Pryimachenko.

This master is a horn-carver. He creates decorations in the national and original styles. He processes cow’s horns manually in accordance with his original technology. This master’s decorations made from cow’s horns do not have any analogs in the world.

Anatoly is a master of stained glass. For over 20 years he has been creating bright pictures from glass pieces of different colors having different themes: items for church, city and countryside landscapes etc...

Taras is a master of vytynanka from Cherkasy region. Using paper he depicts Holodomor plots, images of different historical figures, folklore themes, landscapes etc. He became interested in making pictures from paper way back in his childhood...

Lyuba is a master-pysankar, she is an American of the Ukrainian origin. Her parents are from Ukraine. The master has been occupied in ornamenting pysankas from her childhood. She enjoys writing both traditional pysanky and experimenting with original designs...

This Kyiv artist is deep into study and creation of traditional “spiders” from straw. She says that constantly moving in suspended positions under the room ceiling the spiders harmonize the space and absorb negative energy...

Olha is a master of Petrykivka decorative painting and painting on silk (Batik) from Dnipropetrivsk region. She paints different plates and kitchenware with Petrykivka “bulbs”; for silk the master uses traditional Ukrainian patterns...