What is the painting about, for people who care and who make?

About a unique cultural heritage that joins different generations and teaches one to love the native land, the family, nature and people. At the same time “Tavryka” is about the beauty of the Mykolaiv Region, its values and its philosophy.

But what draws most is its lightness, airiness, transparency and lace-like quality, and also its refined colour range, which together give it a certain elegance and delicacy.

And yet Tavrian painting is quite dynamic — there is much movement in it. Sailing boats move over the water, waves run toward the shore, the wind raises a storm and bends the grasses to the earth, schools of fish study the sea; even the lighthouse shines into the distance, to warn or to show the true path.

And there are wholly carefree ones, where dolphins play in the sea, lovers dream of something under a tree, birds take pleasure in the sky, a little boat plays with the waves… and all of this against remarkable horizons, somewhere at the crossing of the strong elements of a temperamental Mykolaiv Region.

Light and complex at once, “Tavryka” seems to help, by means of paints and brushes, to pour thoughts and feelings onto paper, encoding in every image and symbol, in every little stroke, a unique story of a life — or a part of it: past, present or future. So interesting subjects and compositions are born; looking at them, one may see a particle of the author’s soul.

How much one may say, how much one may tell, through Tavrian painting! There is nothing extra in it, and every element is about something important and of value. It is close to each person and to all, for at its base is the finest feeling in the world — love — and also the strong and healing energy of the elements.