Lovers (2024) Painting by Natalia Kruchkevych

Natalia Kruchkevych is a Ukrainian artist, living and working in Paris. She graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Lviv in Ukraine.

Natalia Kruchkevych is a painter of contemporary landscapes, still lives and genre scenes. Her works are presented in private collections in France, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Germany, USA, China. Also in art collections of La Salle Art Museum (Philadelphia, USA), Ukrainian Museum (New York, USA), National museum in Lviv (Ukraine), Antonovych Palace of Arts (Lviv, Ukraine). Galeria Olena Zamostian (Kyev, Ukraine), and others.

"When I paint, I do not give myself a task. My most important motivation is to first see what I will paint.  I only paint what I have seen. I must see my subject within me so that I can try to recreate the impression it leaves on me. I do not wish to merely create a photo, but rather to reproduce the inspiration that nature has breathed into the subject. Thus, all the components in nature (colors, shapes, etc.) are transformed in the painting, where they create their own significance. The importance of color lies in contrasting colors or the addition of new colors, and shapes combine into a new form and become whole.

 A painting is an universe that exists independently, separately from me. Once it is painted, I see it differently from when I was painting it. A painting expresses the harmony of the whole. It must speak for itself, without explanations." Natalia Kruchkevych 

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1972
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists