About

Once, while drawing flamenco dancers with a simple marker, I realised that there is no more lively and driving matter than a line. You can take the rock paintings of Altamira, or Rembrandt’s painting, or the canvases of Basquiat — everywhere we see that artists resort to the line as the main tool of the image. It creates form, and it also destroys it. So I paint portraits of people, experimenting with marker lines, trying to tame the chaos they create.

Most of all I love to draw people, studying their inner world, relationship to life, relationship with the surrounding space. Usually these are all fictional characters. I study the emotion on a person’s face. Wide or narrow cheekbones, different eye shapes, emotions that leave a mark on the face – what distinguishes these people, can their unstoppable inner strength come out with simple marker strokes?

The smyling faces on the portraits is the part of my series dedicated to joy and dream.
As long as I am Ukrainian artist currently I live in Belgium and constant feeling sorrow and frustration because of war in Ukraine. My friend asked me to draw a joyful human faces to stop destruction and pain. So I draw smiles and cheerful people and try do not forget about life is beautiful somewhere.