Floral Burst. Vibrant Spring Blossoms

Viktoriya Grechko, Ukraine

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.