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I am pleased to announce that last week the opening of an exhibition January 18,2024 in Toronto was a success, where two of my works in the Petrykivka style were presented among the works. The exhibition was organized by Art Etobicoke, together with QuardReal and Art Council Toronto. The exhibition shows the winners of the competition, immigrants from Europe, and is called ROOTS. A lot of information about the exhibition, which will take place for a month(up to February 22,2024), is published on the city’s websites. I would like to say that the atmosphere of the exhibition was wonderful and meeting with creative people is always a great success:LORETTA FAVERI,CHRISTINA YARMOL,ALEXANDRA IORGU,FRANCESCO BORI,DARIA BEER,VLADIMIR TOPAL,DANA SEWELL,SZENDE TUNDERLIGETI and me,HELEN POLISHUK.

Two of my works were selected from Petrykivka, which I exhibited for the first time for a Canadian audience.

It so happened that upon arrival in Canada, I again began to draw and create my own paintings. I painted to order, signed up for competitions, paid for them and received adrenaline, supported and I went to exhibitions of other artists and realized that I was drawn inside to painting flowers in tradition ukrainian style, from which my artistic creativity began. So I returned to painting Petrykivka. The first paintings were made with oil paint, this had difficulties, since in winter they did not dry well. But I continued to create and collected separately, as a collection. So, depending on the year, sometimes 4, and sometimes 10 Petrykivka came out a year.

Not a single one of the paintings I created repeated the second. And the society of Ukrainian artists, the creators of Petrykivka, inspired me .I even took a course from them then and practiced with an outstanding artist, Galuna Nazarenko, to whom I am very grateful for her mentorship. I was so captivated by this skill that I continued to create it, despite other competitions. And I did it without much advertising. So Somewhere in 2020, I already collected about 50 works and I opened my website on Facebook,

https://www.facebook.com/helenpolishukart

which was called CanadaPetrykivka. (This is my answer to some why I put such a hashtag). Last year, in 2023 ,I decided to exhibit my works at the ROOTS competition, I sent 5 arts and 2 won and are presented in the gallery QUARDREAL at Cloverdale Mall, Etobicoke. This kind of interesting news happens to people who create a lot and love creativity very much.Today both works are presented for viewing and for sale.

I continue to work and, already inspired by the opening of the exhibition and meeting creative people like me, a new work has already been created, which I will undoubtedly publish in the next post.
And for my admirers and envious people, I offer you this tea.

This tea contains mint and helps you relax and not care about the troubles that happen. This winter tea is called WINTER EDITION HIVERNALE and is sold in our supermarkets in winter and helps to get what you want from the impersonality of unforeseen problems.

Let’s drink tea and relax

You will understand the full feeling by reading this post in full.
I want to ask you, give me likes so that I can see and feel you on the other side.
Lets begin.
Well, for four or more months, since everything went topsy-turvy for me, and after the absolute loss of work and the impossibility of creating or doing anything planned, I didn’t sit without work for a long time.
The first I was to decide to continue writing scripts and be sure to release a book.

For me, this year is my new project, which I have to create before the end of the year.
Of the plans for this year, the completion of two short films did not come true.

There is quite enough material for both films, it remains to collect and add special effects, but as with all creative people, it has stopped.
The reason is these two products are both comedies. And although I am a person who likes to joke and always have an easy attitude to life, but the environment and events in my country, the news put pressure on me and prevent me from completing these projects.
It’s not about comedies, although comedies are to blame for this.of course, you will immediately note that I am not a commercial person, and you will be mistaken. On the contrary. Who needs these stupid comedies now?

In what aspect have I been able to work and continue to do so?
It is imperative to sell very large paintings. They are difficult to store and preserve, they are gallery works and they need a large open space.
Unfortunately, there is not enough room for them in my house.

I have already turned to some galleries and said that I sell my big works.
If you are also interested, please go to the section of my works there in this page and look at the paintings for 2016-2019 – you will find a dozen large paintings.
The sizes of the paintings are indicated there.

Panno( two+ years work/Mix techique: oil&acryl) Very bright painting

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Each painting is accompanied by a Certificate Authenticity and sign on painting.

A pair of paintings?inspired by the war in Ukraine(We will win and Survive)

If you like any of the works,do not hesitate to contact me by email : helen.polishuk@gmail.com

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It’s absolutely a sale of paintings

Artist with rose/Painting created few days before war.(acrylic&canvas)

Well, their genres, as always, are different.
During this period, I especially managed to replenish my Petrykivka collection.
I’m getting ready to exhibit them in galleries throughout the next year.

It is worth emphasizing that I became interested in acrylic and my work became brighter and richer.
I also liked using acrylic to imitate watercolor painting. That is, such light transparent strokes. Very effective and exciting.

This made me create more than twenty paintings in a short time. Real creative terror))

Such a fountain of emotions and colors splashed out in creativity.
I don’t know how other people experience shocks and events in life, but I separate, dissolve in painting.
When I sit down to draw, I don’t always know what will happen. Here is an idea, for example, draw a poppy. I create a sketch with a pencil, set the shape of a flower, and then the real magic comes. Color selection, graduation, applying shadows – all this magic eventually turns into to such a miracle.

June 29,2022 Toronto

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PETRYKIVKA BY HELEN POLISHUK