Tree of life (2023) Painting by Sofiia Polova

My name is Sofia and I am creative to the core. I was born in Ukraine. In a small town in the Kharkiv region. For as long as I can remember, I have always loved to draw or create incredible things. The love of creativity was instilled in me by my grandfather, an artist. I spent all my childhood in the open air, drawing the nature of my native land. My grandfather taught me to see beauty in ordinary things. In her school years, she always took part in exhibitions, attended art school. After school in 2009, I entered LUKiM at the Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts. Here I got cool experience and creative skills. In 2013 she graduated from LukiM with honors. Having the profession of an artist-teacher, she left for Kharkov, where she began to teach children to draw in the studio of arts and crafts. She was engaged in conducting master classes in watercolor and oil painting, batik. In 2022, with the advent of the war in Ukraine, I was forced to leave my home and leave Kharkov and emigrate first to the Czech Republic (there I was a kindergarten teacher, where I taught children creative imagination, took care of them. I tried to be active in support of Ukraine and drew for a painting exhibition.The city of Prague inspired me to self-discovery.) At the beginning of 2023, I returned to Ukraine and began to live in the wonderful city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Having rethought my life, I began to paint pictures all my free time and get incredible pleasure from it. I really like to draw nature, in my works I often depict trees, for me they are a sacred symbol. Favorite materials are watercolor, liner and acrylic. I often combine them together for unusual plots. Now I actively participate in art events and exhibitions. Open to cooperation and new projects.

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1991
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• Groups: Ukrainian Contemporary Artists