Man in white sweatshirt and sweatpants standing next to abstract black and white painting, holding the top edge with his right hand, with his left hand in his pocket, in a minimal room.
Man in white sweatshirt and sweatpants standing next to abstract black and white painting, holding the top edge with his right hand, with his left hand in his pocket, in a minimal room.

I think my creations tell you more about me than I ever could.

I've spent years putting myself into them. My ideas, my feelings, my questions, and probably a few things I haven't figured out about myself yet.

So if my work speaks to you, I think we already know each other a little.

But here's a little more about me.

I am a Ukrainian artist living and working in Portugal.

After building a menswear brand that sells worldwide, I turned to painting to explore a part of myself that had been waiting quietly for years.

Fashion taught me about beauty, discipline, design, and the importance of details. But painting offered something different. It offered freedom.

I love imperfections. Accidents. Things that happen when you stop trying to control everything.

Unlike business, painting doesn't need to justify itself. It doesn't need approval, investors, deadlines, expectations, or even an audience.

It simply asks for honesty.

My work moves between abstraction and precision, silence and play, memory, happiness, love, and a little irony. Sometimes it's serious. Sometimes it's just fun.

I question myself a lot when I paint. And I like leaving some of those questions for the person looking at my work.

I don't believe everything needs an answer. Or a meaning. Or even a purpose.

Sometimes something can simply be beautiful because it exists.

For me, painting is one of the few places where nothing needs to be commercial, perfect, or understood.

It is a space where I can simply exist, create, make mistakes, and play.

And maybe that's what freedom feels like.