Projects

Series and project-based works growing from observation, walking, recurring subjects, and changes in place, light, weather, and daily life

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Helsinki–Kyiv

A paired series of watercolors and monotypes connecting Helsinki and Kyiv through power plants, tram lines, stations, streets, public spaces, water, and ordinary urban comfort.

Ljutyj 2022

An ongoing watercolor cycle that began during the first months of the full-scale war in Ukraine and follows how war entered familiar streets, buildings, crossings, and everyday city life.

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KyivCityExpress

An ongoing project based on the stations of Kyiv’s urban railway. Each station opens a different view of the city, its infrastructure, movement, waiting, and wartime continuity.

Observation and Experiment

A selection of works made through direct observation and studio experiment, including watercolor, monotype, sepia watercolor, ink drawing, and mixed approaches to image-making.

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Works in Sepia

Sepia watercolors made in a state of concentration and detachment. Plants, leaves, flowers, figures, water, and fragments of the city appear through a narrow range of brown tones, but the main subject is the state in which the work becomes possible.

Fish Day

A series of watercolors and monotypes focused on fish, water, movement, and living forms.

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Flowers in the City

Watercolors observing the fragile coexistence of urban space and seasonal natural rhythms.

Birds / Nature Studies

Drawings and watercolors based on birds, plants, landscapes, and direct observation of natural forms.

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