About Svitlana Andriichenko

Svitlana Andriichenko was born on February 22, 1977 in Ukraine and even as a child she constantly showed a special interest in nature, painting and color. "My paintings are my emotions and my life. I transfer them to canvas. Color is my passion. The feeling of natural harmony gives inspiration to the creation of my flowers and landscapes. My emotions, thoughts, feelings, experience contribute to the creation of abstract paintings. I am truly happy alone with canvases and paints. In my work I use canvas and oil paints. For me, this is the most natural combination of ways of self-expression. I also use various brushes, spatulas and custom-made special artistic tools. The size of my oil paintings depends on my state of mind at any given moment. These can be abstract flowers on a canvas measuring 20x20 cm or abstract expressionism measuring 100x100 or 90x160 cm." 

The desire to draw arose in my youth, I entered an art school, which I successfully graduated from after 5 years of study. Unfortunately, life in a post-Soviet country ended with prosaic things - I received a law degree (Master of Laws) and became a lawyer, worked as a prosecutor for twenty long years and only in my thoughts constantly returned to art. Since 2014, I began to engage in creativity again - what I would like to do all my life since childhood. In 2021, I opened my own studio-gallery about 100 meters. It was a quiet place where I enjoyed working as an artist after my main job at the prosecutor's office. The beginning of the war. After February 24, 2022, my life was divided into "before and after", because of the war I moved from Ukraine to Germany, where my daughter lived and studied at the university before the war. With great difficulty, I managed to transport about 200 of my paintings to Germany. Since 01.03.2022 I live and create paintings in Cologne. New country, new life, new challenges.