Yasya Volkova

My name is Yasya Volkova, my fans know me under the pseudonym "ratroik", and it so happened that the drawing chose me, not I chose the drawing. I am a self-made artist, I have been painting all my adult life, starting with A4 paper, ending with digital art and large canvases. I have extensive experience in various art forms, including animation and music. My style belongs to expressionism and abstractionism, because I mostly live by emotions, and art for me is a reflection of my feelings, searching for myself and experiencing the world around me. All my works had the function of releasing me from heavy feelings, fear, anxiety, losses and gains. In my works, I often raise difficult social issues such as war, mental health, psychological and physical trauma, the search for truth, the balance between the end and the beginning, death and life. However, the foundation of my work has been and will be my own reflections and my own reflection of experiences, internal mental processes and mental defense. I recognize the unconscious through the prism of colors. Drawing helped me cope with mental illness and became a part of my psychotherapy, as it has been throughout my life. So now I am ready to share with the audience, experts, art lovers from all over the world the foundation of my life - creativity! Thank you for looking at my profile!

"Glitch Friday 13" - Lviv, 2016; "New Wave Exhibition" - Lviv, 2017; "Art Approaches Victory" - Lviv, 2022 - acted as a curator of a charity exhibition and an artist; "Art Approaches Victory" - Canada, 2022 "Lost" - personal exhibition, Lviv, 2023;

LNU VM & BT named after Stepan Gzhitskyi - Higher Education, 2013-2017; Private Art School "Van Gogh", Lviv, 2020-2022; Private School "Skvot" - illustration and design, Kyiv, 2022-2023;