Solomiya Ortynska

Lviv, Ukraine

Painting Графіка Живопис

My name is Solomiya Ortynska. I was born on April 5, 1997 in the village of Hrabovets, Stryi district, Lviv region, into a family of teachers. At the age of 12, I actively started attending an art school, where I fell in love with creating illustrations for books. At 16, I entered college, where I studied visual arts. There, I mastered many techniques and delved into academic painting and drawing. From 2015 to 2020, I studied at the Lviv National Academy of Arts at the Department of Art Gl...

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My visual language is painting and graphics. Since childhood, I have been fascinated by how a whole palette of shades can be created from three primary colors. At the moment, I am exploring themes of home, childhood, memories, and places to which there is an attachment. With the onset of the full-scale invasion, I began to analyze how the concept of home has changed and developed a fierce desire to preserve it.

The most vivid memories for me are the vast expanses, changes in colors, textures, and landscapes.

I usually work with oil and acrylic paints, also adding lines with colored pencils and pastels; this combination reflects my love for lines and strokes.

My works are in private collections in Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, the USA, Poland, and Ukraine.