Turtledove. 2008. Paper, gouache. 50x40.
DRAW YOUR FLOWER
DRAW YOUR FLOWER – is a narration of the Honorable Master of Arts Ihor Poshyvaylo about a folk master of decorative painting. Liudmyla Vitkov-ska from Makariv, Kyiv region. This talented master has a difficult fate. She became an orphan in a young age, then lost her two daughters, though she wasn’t broken, cleansed by her tears of grief and blossomed with the love to her family, native land, life. The master comes from Cher-nihiv area and it was there where her poetical world was formed. Liudmyla Vladislavivna has been creative and enthusiastic all her life. A librarian by her education she founds and heads children art studios, carries out pedagogical, ethnic and art experiments, shares her experience and skills, paints pysankas, writes poems but most of the time she paints. Her pictures are innocent and nave. Her creative work has been marked by a number of awards, among which there is an honorable art prize of Kyiv region administration named after Petro Verna in the sphere of art.