Masters

This Kyiv artist creates wonderful knot dolls. Not of a simple kind but in a Middle Dnipro (Naddripryanshchina) regional style.

An artist from Lviv working in the stained glass technique. She owns a creative workshop where several journeymen create interesting panels, implement new ideas and offer professional design and manufacture of different kinds of unique works from stained glass under the artists’ supervision and with her participation.

Among the works of this embroideress from Ternopil there are a lot of those in which different embroidery techniques are combined: “pads”, chain stitch, catch stitch, hack weaving, counted satin-stitch, cross-stitch, open work, shtapivka, “nightingale eyes” (combination of four small squares made in counted satin-stitch with a tiny opening in the center), double (Bulgarian) cross-stitch. ...

A wood carver from Lviv region has devoted himself to the revival of the traditional Yavoriv toy. Together with his two brothers and the son they cut folk toys from aspen and decorate them with the local folk ornaments...

Oleksiy is a stone carver from all his heart. Some time ago he left the capital to seclude himself with his family close to the sandstone quarry in Bukatynka village, Vinnitsya region. He wanted to carve elegant images of his world perception and world outlook out of stone lumps...

A weaver from Verkhovyna district of Ivano-Frankivsk region keeps ten sheep and uses their wool for her handiworks: liznnycks (homespun blankets), carpets, runners, belts, zapaskas...

This master from Mariupol, Donetsk region, first started embroidering at the age of 42, so she hasn’t let the threaded needle out of her hands for 9 years by now. Olena embroiders everyday: wedding rushnyks, shirts, chemises, tea-cloths and pictures...

She is a master of embroidery from Yasinuvata, Donetsk region. She has been occupied in the embroidery of shirts, chemises and pictures from the mid 90th...

A spoon-maker by his ancestry born in a village of spoon-makers called Teptiivka in Kyiv region makes everyday household and kitchen things for various tastes from pieces of different wood (linden, maple, willow, pear, aspen) ranging from spoons and dippers to spindles and pipes...

This master from Melytopol makes wonderful embroidered “Cossack rushnyks” on homespun fabric. She learned the craft of creating them from a Zaporozhye embroideress Svitlana Ignatchenko who had revived them in her time...

Master of pysankas from Kyiv region has been ornamenting pysankas on the goose, hen and ostrich’s eggs for more than ten years. She both copies traditional ornaments from the 19th century albums and develops modern original ones...

A Kiev artist of decorative painting possesses an original technique. As the basis she has taken folk wall painting made by water paints on white clay...

This Dnipropetrovsk artist works in several different genres of art (painting, graphic art, miniatures, vytynanky, pysanky) as well as writing essays about the fine arts...

A young master from Kirovograd is occupied in pysanka ornamenting, plastic art using salty dough and decorative painting combining three types of techniques in her creative work...

Due to their masterly needle techniques this Ternopil master’s hands give birth to embroidered rushnyks (national style towels), shirts and chemises, tea-cloths for different holidays, to the Easter in particular...

Soft wolves, foxes, bears, frogs, gods, chicken and roosters; an old man, woman and their granddaughter dressed in traditional folk costumes – this is an incomplete list of the main protagonists of Ukrainian folk tales created by the talented artist in the dry felting technique...

An ancestral weaver from Bohuslav in Kiev region weaves carpets, runners, decorative pictures and chair covers in the national style. She teaches children this art and craft...

This master of Petrykivka decorative painting is a gifted student and a worthy successor of the work of her talented father, Fedir Panko. Valentyna’s decorative painting is rich in colors and exquisite. Red, blue and green colors prevail in the palette of the artist’s works – they are the favorite colors in the national Ukrainian ...

A master of Petrykivka decorative painting had been occupied in this kind of art from her childhood. It really couldn’t have been any other way because Halyna was born in a famous Petrivka village. After a number of years she has improved her skills and now this master is considered to be one of the ...

These Lviv artists continue the traditions of the Ukrainian blown glass and follow the work of their teachers. In this, they like to experiment with shape, colors and contents.