Ritual art

UKR,

Kiev

    Oksana was born in 1965 in Kiew. She is a graduate of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, where she specialized in biology and geography. She began her adventure with pysanky in 1992. Her teacher was Natalia Selivachova.
    She makes pysanky mostly using the traditional wax-resist method but she also etches, creating unusual mesh patterns.

    Oksana runs pysanky workshops for children at the Palace of Children and Youth. She also runs her own studio, where she showcases a collection of pysanky from all regions of Ukraine along with her workshop work. For the past several years, owing to  Volodymyr Markaryan she has been showing interest in traditional imprints and has started making gingerbread moulds and stamps with traditional motifs to be imprinted onto fabrics.

    Oksana has taken part in many fairs and exhibitions, including in Germany, France, Poland, Latvia, Belarus as well as Ukraine.

    She is a member of the Ukrainian Folk Artists’ Association