I’m a Brooklyn-based painter and a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ukraine. My practice grows from curiosity, intuition, and a desire to translate inner experiences into tangible form. I explore textures of individual experiences, self-love, spirituality, and belonging through painting and ceramics, letting each medium serve as a site of inquiry.

Rather than beginning with an image or conclusion, my practice starts with listening and moves between intuition and structure. I am drawn to the space of not knowing, and to what surfaces when attention slows, and certainty loosens: memories, transformations, ruptures, and the elements that shape us beneath the visible self. I follow what wants to emerge, allowing the work to unfold through attuned observation rather than control.

A core body of my work, Paintings from the Deep Unknown, arises from a meditative state in which identity softens, allowing me to witness inner experience. Then images surface from sustained interior attention. I carry them into matter through layering, revision, and repetition. This process became both an artistic and a personal practice, a way of staying with complexity and without rushing toward resolution.

Alongside my meditative paintings, owls occupy a distinctive space in my practice. Each owl painting represents a particular mood, emotion, place, or character.

Material intimacy is central to my work. I stay involved in as many stages of creation as possible - from building and priming canvases to gathering natural pigments and preparing my own paints. This tactile closeness grounds each piece, connecting it to the places, elements, and gestures that shaped it. I think of material not as a tool, but as a collaborator. I am interested in how the medium, presence, and perception meet, and in what comes to the surface when we allow ourselves to stay with a feeling long enough for it to take form.

Whether working en plein air, shaping porcelain, or returning to inner landscapes, my work is guided by the same questions: What emerges from uncertainty? What might be revealed if we allow ourselves vulnerability to be seen without armor?