"A teacher for an artist may not necessarily be the one who 'takes the hand and leads'. Teachers can be ancient Greek or Egyptian artists, or Japanese, or Dutch, or French, because an attentive artist can learn from all of them. It even seems that they all communicated with each other in some way".

    Oleksiy Bednoshey now lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has been participating in solo and joint exhibitions in Ukraine since 1982, has had solo exhibitions in Hungary and Macedonia and participated in many auctions. Oleksiy Bednoshey's works are part of the private collections in Ukraine and around the world (Germany, Hungary, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, the USA).

    There are paintings that you want to look at. They captivate you so you want to look at them for a long time, feeling calm, as if you were breathing in the scent of the flowers depicted in them or listening to the lazy hum of bees near a blossoming apple tree. Looking at a beehive in an apple orchard, you dream of the harmony of the world and are happy to see it realized. 

    There are also paintings that make you feel like you're in a Paris café with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. You can imagine yourself talking to the old Parisian artists and mentally asking them about how it was in their time. What was Paris like? What was the world like? What delighted and depressed them back then? Sometimes you dream about the next meeting with friends who are scattered around the world but are very close to you in your mind.

    These are the thoughts that arise when you contemplate the works of the artist Oleksiy Bednoshey. And you realize that the artist − the son of a famous father, the artist Danylo Bednoshey − was born into a family that enriched the world with beauty and was called on to multiply this beauty himself. Oleksiy Bednoshey immerses us in a melodic mood with every brushstroke. 

    The rhythms and vibrations of his paintings create real music of a blooming garden around us - it's a symphony of his favorite Ukrainian nature! The artist himself says that even though military themes are not alien to his work, now he wants to express only the beauty of his homeland in his work. A unique, fleeting moment captured on the canvases of Oleksiy Bednoshey is a moment of joy that feels eternal.

    Oleksiy Bednoshey (July 2023): 

"Ukrainians are very grateful to you for the help you and your country provided to our homeland during the war. Your help encouraged other countries to help jointly. 

I would also like to share with you the beauty of Ukrainian nature in the way I can, so that it may delight you as it delights me."