Masters Type

Egg ornamenting

Viktoria Boychuk
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 ...
Lyudmyla Protsenko
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.
Lyuba Petrusha
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...
Olga Martynova
Olga is a Cherkasy master of embroidery and pysanka-making art - not an ordinary master but the head of Cherkasy center of folk masters. Together with them, Olga is reviving shirts and rushnyks made in local traditions and also the tradition of ornamenting pysankas...
Svitlana Delikatna
Svitlana is a pysankar from Khmelnitsky. She has been ornamenting pysankas starting from 2008 and during this period she has mastered her skills so much that in January 2010 she was qualified as a folk art master...
Oksana Smereka-Malyk
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 Yanko
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...
Olha Kuchma
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).
Rostyslav Kramar
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).
Vira Man’ko
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.
Mariya Ivanyshyn
Maria is a well-known pysankar from Lviv, from Ivano-Frankivsk by origin. She investigates pysankas from the entire region and reproduces them. Especially she likes Gutsul ones. Besides, she is interested in weaving on looms, straw weaving and motanka-dolls.
Iryna Pasternak
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...
Oksana Horodynska
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.
Oksana Bilous
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.
Tetyana Konoval
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.
Leonida Tkachenko
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.
Lesya Turukina
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...
Andriy Pushkaryov
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...
Tetyana Storozhenko
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...
Larysa Holovnya
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.
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