Chrysanthemums

Oksana Ohapkina, Ukraine

Oksana absorbed Eastern and Ukrainian cultures. This is a powerful foundation on which she reveals her creativity. Her own interpretation of the acquired skills and abilities in fine arts helps her realize her ideas and original perception of the world in paintings, as she has her own unusual view of nature and people. She has a penchant for simplicity of forms at the expense of deep philosophical and emotional content. The ability to see and depict the essence of things is based on personal perception and spiritual individuality. She was born in 1970 in Central Asia, Turkmenistan. She spent her youth in Kyrgyzstan, where she graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Bishkek. At that time, the specialty was new "Electronic computing machines, complexes and systems". She worked as a programmer for more than 20 years, where the last 10 years were international companies LUXSOFT, DELL, Deutsche Bank. In 2014, she picked up a brush and paints for the first time and discovered the magical world of art. It fascinated me so much that I began to study the history of art, get acquainted with the work of artists, attend master classes, take courses, and study painting. Tried different techniques, experimented with materials, most of all I like to work in oil and dry pastel. She is attracted by contrast and colors, simplicity and monochrome, conciseness, rhythm, elements of national clothing and ceramics. The source of inspiration is travel and flowers. With the beginning of the war in 2022, she switched to the dry pastel technique and began to paint flowers. In this difficult time, only flowers give strength to live and work, love and create.