Yaryliv day. 2002. 
CREATOR OF A FLOWER SPACE
Expert in art Vitaliy Starchenko writes that nowadays it is difficult to name those who follow Kateryna Bilokur but Hanna Samarska. She is in fact the only one pupil of the great master. Kateryna Vasylivna met Hanna when she was doing her five-year at school – a girl from Koptehiivka farm near Bogdanivka, Kyiv region. Hanna used to visit the master watching creation of a wonder and learned how to create it. Those lessons were enough to make decorative works in “Khu-dozhprom” factory in Kyiv and later after moving to Petrykivka (Dnipropetrovsk region) in 1961 to solve a dilemma: to become one of the masters from Pe-trykivka or to remain Kateryna Bilokur’s heiress and follower. Hanna Samarska managed to join fundamental philosophical Southern Steppe flower painting principles with her teacher’s painting ethic and aesthetic ones. Samarska’s paintings philo-sophy is a unity of cosmic and terrestrial, the Earth as a part of the Universe, mysterious small as a model of divine- unachiev-able. The master has the govern-ment awards, but the most valuable for her is the prize named after Kateryna Bilokur. This prize is an acknowledgement of her high life mission.
