"Аrt and culture have an ancient history. It is woven into our everyday life".

    Olha Omelchyshyna (Mai 2023):

   "First of all, I want to thank the Americans and President Biden for their support for Ukraine. I'd like to introduce Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian art to the American audience. 

   Especially in today's realities, it is important to show, that our art and culture have an ancient history. It is woven into our everyday life". 

    We quite recently discovered a wonderful artist Olha Omelchyshyna, whose works are full of life and beauty!

    Olha Omelchyshyna lives and works in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine now. She has participated in exhibitions in Kamianets-Podilskyi and Kyiv, as well as in art competitions in the UK and Poland. We showed her art in the exhibitions in the Gallery@First Bedford, MA (2023), the Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell, MA (2024), at Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA (2024).  It seems to me that she is currently in a period of powerful formation of her own style, despite the fact that there is a full-scale war in the country. Olha Omelchyshyna works in oil pastels. 

    Still lifes and other works by Olha Omelchyshyna will beautify any home. They will coexist with works of other styles and are striking for a living room or a child's bedroom. From a decorative point of view, they are absolutely charming and universal. We are delighted to present these works for the American audience, because it is easy to fall in love with them as soon as you see them.

    Here is what art critic Inna Berezina, PhD, says about Olha Omelchyshyna and her work: "Olha Omelchyshyna. Ukrainian artist and lecturer of fine arts disciplines at the Kamianets-Podilskyi Professional College of Construction, Architecture and Design. She graduated from the Kamianets-Podilskyi School of Art, Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohienko National University. Olha Omelchyshyna is a participant and winner of numerous national and international art contests and exhibitions. The artist works in various techniques of painting and graphics, realizes her own creative ideas in the genres of still life and landscape, and pays special attention to the animalistic genre − the images of which sometimes stand alone, and sometimes are components of meaningful still life.

    The works by Olha Omelchyshyna presented in the exhibitions are the quintessence of art where meaning and ideas are interpreted by the artist in her own way. Here, simple truths and everyday things acquire warm comfort, painful memories, and strong emotions.

    Olha Omelchyshyna loves apples as much as Cezanne − her apples and pears dominate the picture plane, gravitating towards geometric bodies, denying the darkness outside the window with their physicality and brightness. Autumn flowers in a wicker basket and bunches of ripe viburnums against the background of a snow-white tablecloth and embroidered towel are not just a still life successfully assembled by the author; they are the code of the nation, they are signs and symbols that the artist transmits to the world. Disheveled little birds and a fluffy white cat are the main characters of the animalistic compositions. This is the world around us, simple and unpretentious, but it is an integral part of life, Ukrainian identification, and ethnic culture of the people.

    All the compositions are made in oil pastels. However, Olha has already developed her own style. Pure colors are intertwined in small dynamic strokes, creating the illusion of complex shades. The impressionist and post-impressionist style of painting was developed by the artist and transferred to the world of oil pastels." 

    Olha Omelchyshyna's works enchant the viewer!