• The author
Born in 1987, in Lviv, Ukraine. Artist, icon painter, designer, art manager, coordinator of art projects of the development department of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), teacher of the Icon Painting School "Radruzh" of the UCU. She graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts with a degree in "Design" (2011) and the "Radruzh" Icon Painting School at the Ukrainian Catholic University (2013). In her works, she uses natural wood, levkas, yolk tempera, organic and mineral pigments, as well as gilding and silvering techniques. By combining these traditional materials with modern ones, she imitates and at the same time interprets the synthesis of ancient and modern Ukrainian iconography. A special place in her work is dedicated to the Ukrainian folk icon on glass, which is for the artist an object of research, a means of continuing the tradition and a field for her own interpretation. Also she is the author of the series of gift icons on glass - "My_Dear_God". Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, she uses the technique of a quick naive sketch to document war crimes and depict the everyday life of Ukrainians in the author's project "WAR. SKETCHES. The sacredness of everyday life." The works are stored in churches and private collections in Ukraine, European countries, as well as in the centers of universal churches in the Vatican and Istanbul; in the USA, Canada, England and Australia. Lives and works in Lviv. Exhibitions and projects: • June 2024 - exhibition-presentation of the international art project "Safeguarding" about child safety. Development of the course - Center for the Dignity of the Child (UCU), author of illustrations and performance ideas - Ulyana Krekhovets (Kyiv, Lavra gallery) • April 2024 - exhibition-presentation of the international art project "Safeguarding" about child safety. Development of the course - Child Dignity Center (UCU), author of illustrations and performance ideas - Ulyana Krekhovets (Lviv, "Dzyga" gallery) • February 2024 - author's exhibition project WAR. SKETCHES. The sacredness of everyday life. (Lviv, Sheptytskyi UKU Center) • November 2023 - author's project WAR. SKETCHES. (Prylbychi, family village, Museum of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi) • December 2022 - author's project "War sketches: religion and art" (Ireland, Dublin, Our Lady in Consolation parish chapel) • Spring 2022 - participant of the INVICTA project - stories of Ukrainian women artists in paintings created in the first 111 days of the war with russia • 2022-2024 - participant in exhibitions of the community of teachers and students of the Icon Painting School "Radruz" UCU in Krakow, Poznan, Rytwiany, Radruzh (Poland) and Salzburg and Linz (Austria) • 2022 - 2023 - participant of open-air exhibitions - OTO SYN TWÓJ ОТО МАТКА TWOJA - XV MIEDZYNARODOWE WARSZTATY IKONOPISÓW NOWICA-CASTEL GANDOLFO 2023 • 2022-2023 - participant of open air exhibitions - SPOTKANIE ZE ZMARTWYCHWSTALYM - XIV MIEDZYNARODOWE WARSZTATY IKONOPISÓW NOWICA-WESOLA 2022 • December 2020-January 2021 - participant of the exhibition project "From Roman to Jordan" (Lviv, Sheptytskyi UCU Center) • 2021-2024 - participant of the Easter exhibitions of the community of icon painters of the Iconart gallery (Lviv) • 2021-2024 - participant of the Christmas exhibitions of the community of icon painters of the Iconart gallery (Lviv) • 2021 - participant of the Christmas exhibition of Radruzh School of UCU - "And the Word became Body" • 2013 - Exhibition of icon painters of Radruzh School of UCU - "Women's Faces of Holiness"
• About project
In every struggle for justice, there is a sense of sacredness
that gives strength and inspiration to those
who believe in the victory of good.
This is a project that was never planned, for which no concept was written, and one that I wish had never come into being—if only there had been no reasons for these sketches to exist. And yet, in each of them, both explicitly and implicitly, there speaks the significance of every single day within the context of war and human existence.
I began to record events through drawing during the first week of the full-scale invasion, without seeking any profound or conscious explanations for doing so. Over time, these sketches grew into a chronological chain—a deliberate act of documenting both reality and ontological, unreal associations, viewed through the perspective of eternity, tradition, and faith. For many, they became a visual accompaniment to numerous publications, theological conferences, and public reflections addressing the war. This exhibition presents a substantial part of the original sketches, transformed into digital images and complemented by texts.
Without claiming artistic ambition, these naïve drawings became my way of communicating with the world—a powerful means of preserving emotional balance, sustaining resilience, and affirming faith in the victory of truth and goodness. They have become a chronicle of events and inner experiences that have shaped my understanding of the war and my observation of how we encounter the sacred within everyday life. In fighting for our existence, we rise above the circumstances of time, seeking meaning and metaphor in the simplest daily actions.