Autobiography

    I was born on the 27th of June 1950 in the town Chernivtsi in Western Ukraine. As a child I studied painting in artistic studios.

    In 1969 I graduated from the College of Applied Arts with the degree in design. My teachers influenced the formation of my artistic style and life.
   
    The beginning of my artistic biography was rather complicated. Both my interests in fine arts and my personal creative activity coincided with the end of the so-called Khruschev "thaw" and the beginning of the stagnation period, when the freedom of creative self-expression was unpopular and disapproved of.

    My creative work was exclusively my personal affair, because I could not accept the official requirements for art and therefore did not wish to meet them.

    I worked in different genres and had been participating in the official exhibitions of wooden decorative sculpture since 1975. In 1983 I held my first exhibition which included landscape painting and graphics. Since 1984 I had been working for different museums painting historical pictures.

    In 1987-two town landscapes of mine won the competition to be sent to the All-Union Exhibition. As a result, in 1988 I was accepted to the "League of Artists of the USSR". Thus I received a professional status of creative worker and the official right to choose any creative trend in my work. My social status also improved. I became independent.

    In 1990 an Exhibition of my works was held in the Ukrainian Museum in Canada. Later I participated in the exhibitions dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian Emigration in different cities in Canada.

    In 1993 I participated in the Exhibition "Works on Paper" in Edmonton (Canada). In that same year an exhibition of my works was held in Austria, in the city of Ried (Upper Austria).

    In 1995 my works were exhibited in the "Bodenshcatz" Gallery in Switzerland (Basel). In 1995 I participated in two exhibitions in Austria (Vienna and Pram).

    At present I work as a graphic artist in the field of thematic landscape and non-figurative composition using "etching" technique and other combined techniques.

    My artistic philosophy may be formulated in the following way:
Creative work as a possibility to communicate with truth, as a proof of the highest predestination of man. The striving to create an artistic image which is above commonplace reality, as a means of approaching ideal and harmony.

    Pithiness and intelligence in any artistic form and sincerity with oneself.