Viktoriya Grechko

I have loved to draw for as long as I can remember. She drew funny pictures for her friends, caricatures of teachers at school, wall newspapers and posters, she liked to design creative works. She was just a girl who drew well. But I definitely remember that I was not going to become an artist. That's why she didn't study painting either in clubs or at an art school. I still have no academic education in this field. But art impressed me even then, in childhood. At home, we had many books on painting, the illustrations from which I looked over and over many times. I probably got my talent from my mother. She had good artistic taste, painted herself and sang very clearly. I started painting at the age of 59, intensively starting the learning process, visiting virtual exhibitions, seminars and master classes, studying materials about means of expression in painting and trying to form spatial, imaginative thinking. Later, she chose the language of painting for herself, and craft success was not long in coming. Six months later, I created my first two paintings, which are now in a private collection in Belgium. Since then, many of my works have spread around the world. In total, hundreds of canvases of various formats and content have been created over the years. I mostly work in the techniques of oil painting, pastels, watercolors in the genres of still life and landscape, I try myself as a portraitist. In my senior years, I try not to swim to the shores of peace, because I love life very much. I am grateful to the Creator that I live in harmony with myself and I want to say that thanks to painting I live another interesting and meaningful little life.

2019 - participation in the exhibition "Christmas Vernissage" of the Educational and Methodological Center of culture and tourism of Prykarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk participation in the Christmas exhibition in the city of Kalusha 2020 - participation in the XXXII International plein air exhibition of artists "Orebic-2020" in Croatia participation in the International online plein air of artists "Ventspils - the pearl of the Baltic Sea" - participation in the Christmas painting exhibition of artists of the Ivano-Frankivsk region participation in the exhibition for the Artist's Day in Kalush; participation in the Christmas exhibition in the city of Kalusha 2021 - the first personal exhibition "Brush Poetry" in the city of Kalush participation in master classes and plein airs of the American artist Lori Putnam in Ivano-Frankivsk and Yaremche 2022 - participation in XXXIV international plein air exhibition of artists "Orebic-2022" in Croatia; the second personal exhibition of creative works in the art gallery "Bastion" in Ivano-Frankivsk participation in the exhibition for the Artist's Day in Kalush participation in a charity fair in aid of the Armed Forces in Wroclaw participation in the Christmas exhibition in the city of Kalusha participation in the Christmas exhibition in Ivano-Frankivsk 2023 - participation in a charity auction for City Day in aid of the Armed Forces participation in the exhibition of the works of Kalush artists, whose works are presented in the catalog of artists "ArtKalush" participation in a charity fair in aid of the Armed Forces of Ukraine participation in a master class for soldiers undergoing rehabilitation in the Kaluga hospital participation in the "Create a miracle" master class for children of primary school age -participation in conducting a master class for young people 2024 collective exhibition "Winter Wonders", Kyiv, Boyka Art Center, "Globus" gallery collective exhibition "Christmas", Kalush collective exhibition "Winter Wonders", Kyiv, Boyka Art Center, "Globus" gallery collective exhibition "Images", Kalush collective exhibition "Flower Motifs", Kalush participation in the master class of the art project "Draw with the heart" for the wives of Kaluga defenders the third personal exhibition "Autograph of the soul", Educational and Methodological Center of culture and tourism of Prykarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk.

I have no academic art education.