Kyiv

Sisters by birth, Natalka and Tetyana together create small wonders: ancient traditional oberegs of Ukrainian families – motanka-dolls. Tetyana combines colors and makes faces. Natalya invents magnificent ornaments and implements them in embroidery by counted satin-stitch.

This Kyiv master has been into the doll-making starting from the end of 2008. For this period she’s mastered the craft. At the fair held in Pyrohiv Kateryna Yushchenko, the first lady of Ukraine, liked Nelly’s handicrafts so much that she bought four of her dolls – either for her daughters or as presents...

A young Kyiv master of motanka-dolls has mastered this craft by herself. For dolls she takes fabric woven on a loom; flax, rushnyks, beads, lace, table-cloths, bands and threads; for compositions she uses cereal ears, poppy seed, peas, buckwheat, millet...

Curious and restless master from Kyiv region tries her skills in different areas and styles of arts and crafts. Besides decorative embroidery she has mastered the technique of decorative painting, pysanka ornamenting, modeling from ceramic mass and dough. At present she takes great interest in decorative enamels...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

Vasyl is a well-known Ukrainian musician playing kobza, bandura, violin and flute. He is a participant of many ethnic festivals in Ukraine and abroad. At the same time, Vasyl Buyanovsky is known as a talented master in creation of musical instruments.

No evening gatherings and vechornytsy (revels of young people) in Ivan Honchar museum in Kiev can do without this master. Ms Holovnya works there as fabric restorer and teaches all the willing people to ornament the Easter eggs with colorful guardian signs.

She is one of the most famous among the Kyiv pysankars who has devoted her life to the revival of this ancient classical art. The master stands to the traditions and copies thousands of pysankas from a catalogue issued in the XIX century. Her exhibitions have taken places not only in the Ukrainian cities but ...

Rayisa Pavlenko weaves all the traditional oberegs (guardian talismans) used by Ukrainians in the olden times. Pompous didukhs (kinds of trees made of different cereal ears as symbols of wealth) of the master have gained especial fame.

Embroidered ties, bow-ties and men’s kerchiefs for tail-coats long ago became personal business cards of this Kyiv artist representing her creative work. These accessories for business clothes Tetyana has developed herself. She sews them from cross-stitching canvas and decorates with traditional patterns.

This national artist makes embroideries and toys. She is ready to speak for hours about the family of her dolls in which every one has its own purpose. According to the master, creation of these dolls is hard and very serious work that needs love and understanding of its aim...

The artist knows nearly everything about straw and its creative transformations. She works with golden rye stems both at work and at home. From them, she weaves oberegs (guardian talismans) reach in images and teaches others this craft...

Dolls – motankas created by this master can now be found in eight countries of the world. Two of them are in Africa: in Ethiopia and South African Republic. The artist does not keep a large collection of motankas at home. She makes them either to orders or as presents...