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Marjana was born and lives in the suburb of Lviv in the village of Davydiv. She has her Bachelors of Architectural Environment and her Masters degree in Interior Planning from the Lviv National Academy of Arts. She is married and is raising a daughter. While working at her job at the Project Bureau of the […]

Marianna was born in Toronto of Ukrainian heritage, but currently lives and work in Hamilton Ontario. She attended University of Toronto and received a Bachelor of Arts. She also holds a Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University. Marianna has always painted and came to study Byzantine iconography in her late twenties. Marianna’s first attempt at […]

Maria obtained a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Alberta in 2003, with a major in Ukrainian and a minor in ESL. After graduating, she spent some time in Germany and Poland before moving to Ukraine in the wake of the Orange Revolution, in which she participated firsthand. She was employed as a […]

Larisa was born in Edmonton, and having graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art & Design from the University of Alberta, has become an accomplished Canadian artist. As a painter, Larisa’s preferred medium is water colour. The bold and colourful work she produces, demonstrates a unique artistic style that has enabled her […]

The opportunity to create and show one’s photographs is a privilege. After years of working in education as a teacher, consultant and administrator, and after focusing on facilitating others to learn and create, it is a shift to focus on artmaking. This allows one to make personal creative decisions, to integrate knowing to tell a […]

Iryna was born on February 6, 1979 in Lviv, Ukraine. She completed her secondary education at school №89 (Lviv), and then attained her degree in Ukrainian language, literature, and folklore at Lviv Ivan Franko National University. During and after her student years, Iryna was a very active and creative person, and participated in the Cheremosh […]

Iryna was born in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, where growing interest to art lead her to the Children Fine Art School, than to Kyiv College of Industrial Arts and finally to the Ukrainian Academy of Fine Art and Architecture. From there Iryna Karpenko started her own journey in becoming an accomplished artist. In the nineties, […]

Irene has been wheat weaving since 1985. About 28 years ago, Irene was inspired by her father, who told her than in Ukraine, he could weave enough straw in a day for his uncle to make a hat. Irene’s first project was 100 napkin rings for her parents’ wedding anniversary, and things took off from […]

Growing up within the Ukrainian community in Edmonton and being apart of many Ukrainian organizations, allowed me to get involved and develop a love for Ukrainian culture and art. I started potting in my teens and have been working with clay and other artistic materials for many decades in my different homes in Toronto, Scotland, […]

Igor Postash’s art offers a slice of life that often prompts laughter, even in the quiet confines of an art gallery. His work is reminiscent of iconic or religious painters from centuries past, but his scenes are taken from everyday life, spiced up with an oddball cast of characters and settings. His main themes are […]