Masters

Oleksandr is a master of decorative soldering of sculptures from sheet copper. This technique is one of the most ancient ones. The potential of this material is inexhaustible. Sheet copper is valuable due to its unique characteristics of flexibility and plasticity that allow for vivid disclosure of images and the sculpture characters...

Olha is a painter and a doll-maker from Dnipropetrovsk region. She started her creative work way back from painting clay toys of some master. Later Olha became so attracted to the folk creations that she began to make motanka-dolls, to embroider rushnyks and tea-cloths, and to make necklaces herself...

Svitlana is an ancestral master of Petrykivka decorative painting from the village in Dnipropetrovsk region bearing the same name. She paints various items from wood and other materials in “Petrykivka” tradition...

Myroslava is occupied in decorative textiles. She weaves rushnyks, bags, banners – “khoruhvy”, dresses, traditional gobelins and gobelins made using original technique of weaving on glass...

Oksana is occupied in the study and popularization of folk art. She works as a pysankar, vytynankar and embroidery master. Painting is the main genre of the artist’s creative work. She is occupied in modeling of national costumes and is interested in weaving.

The range of the master’s creative interests covers tapestry, fancy decoration of fabrics and doll-making. Tapestry was the first and the greatest passion of Oksana Petrashchuk. Today she can be said to have developed her own original way in tapestry weaving.

Lyudmila is not only a master of embroidery from Ivano-Frankivsk region; she is also a student, a public figure, a deputy of the Horodenkivsk regional council, mother of three children and a clergyman’s wife. It’s a wonder how Lyudmila copes with all this. But as the master says whatever she is doing embroidery is ...

A master of folk-doll, Poltava native by origin, she decorates the clothes of knot-dolls of her several collections by embroidery and traditional ornaments which were collected by Ukrainian Classics Olena Pchilka and Marko Grushevsky in their times.

One of the participants of the Ternopil creative association called "Berehynya" (the goddes of protection), to which about ten other local maters-embroideresses belong. As for Mariah Maksymiv, she has been occupied in embroidery for more than 60 years. Mariah started to work with needles and threads back in her early childhood.

A Kyiv artist – ceramist confidently keeping local potter traditions. She gives preference to multi-shaped sculpture with the help of which she creates images of a new world-perception on the basis of the Ukrainian epos.

A young representative of the Kyiv school of ceramics. In her creative work with clay she is guided first of all by her imagination and feelings; she investigates colors and combinations of their shades. The artist improvises using shapes of the real life as the basis.

This master is a real keeper (berehynya) of Ternopil embroidery tradition. Since 2005 she has been the head of a creative association bearing the same name. A lot of well-known local embroideresses belong to it. Together, they take part in different festivals; experiment with embroidery and revive ancient ornamental patterns.

Kyiv pysankar Oksana Bilous is famous first of all by the fact that Victor Yushchenko ordered pysankas from her several times. Her works are usually presented to foreign ambassadors and consuls. Besides, it’s this master from whom tens of well-known pysankars learned this ancient art.

A musician, a flute player and a carver - all in one person, from Kyiv region. He can create flutes from any kind of wood: willow, linden, alder, oak, birch. But most of all the master likes willow because according to his words instruments from such wood sound “as they should do”.

An artist-ceramist from ceramist dynasty from Kyiv region. He creates decorative plates with ornaments in which he uses the theme of Cossacks or vegetative ornaments. During each baking he also reproduces several of his father’s works thus maintaining invisible connection with him...

A well-known pysankar from Luhansk region. She is famous not only by her work in the revival of the traditional national art in her region and creating of over 10 thousand pysankas but also for her invention of a unique technology of creating raised as if carved ornaments on eggs by means of vinegar etching.

Master of straw weaving from Luhansk region. As a practicing psychologist by profession she says that the process of twisting straw is a kind of art-therapy. This exercise can calm people down and even cure them.

It is difficult to say right from the start whether this artist from Luhansk region is more of a pysankar or of an embroideress. She is equally good at both: ornamenting pysankas and emroidering shirts, chemises and rushnyks.

Hannah is a weaver from Kosivshchyna (a Hutsul region) with fifty years of experience. She weaves curative lizhnycks (blankets), verets (matting floor covering) and runners from woolen thread; in winter she weaves warm clothing items: sleeveless jackets, slippers, sweaters.

Head of the "Kolo-Ra assosiation", for ten years Olexy together with his associates has been reconstructing from ordinary clay the best finds of the Trypillya times and making souvenirs from them.