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Mariia Gnyniuk, Ukraine

Maria Gnyniuk is Ukrainian self-taught artist. Drawing fascinated her since childhood; nevertheless, she connected her first professional experience with the financial sphere. Those days she spent all her free time copying works of the greatest impressionists. Her passion for art only grew stronger every year, therefore, at the age of 28, Maria decided to quit her main job and devoted herself entirely to paintings. The artist paints hyperrealistic portraits of world movie stars in charcoal, creates watercolor illustrations, but most of her work is occupied by oil paintings. Maria travels a lot, so often the subjects of her paintings are famous cityscapes and landscapes. In some of her works the main place is occupied by large floristic elements. This is how the artist trying to attract people's attention to the value and beauty of nature in the age of information boom and total lack of time. Maria believes that despite the fact that nowadays not every inhabitant of megalopolises has a constant opportunity to admire blooming of nature, they have a great opportunity to enjoy the result of observing this wonderful phenomenon by artists, who combine it with their inner experiences and transferred to the canvas. Most of her artistic experience Maria gained through hard daily work and training but at the same time, she collaborated and studied periodically with recognized Ukrainian artists. The artist is sure that not so much academic knowledge can help in transferring his perception of the world to the canvas as a sincere love for creativity.