

Maryana Bryukhanova
Born: 1980
Hometown: Odessa
Based in: Cancun, Mexico
Born: 1980
Hometown: Odessa
Based in: Cancun, Mexico
Contemporary Ukrainian artist. Born in Nikolaev. Until 2022, she lived and worked in Odessa, where she graduated from the Children’s Art School of Arts (1997). Received a bachelor’s degree and a specialist (2002) of fine and decorative arts, mastered academic painting and studied art history.
In 2022, she was forced to leave Ukraine due to the war that began in the country.
Currently lives and works in Barcelona.
She began her artistic practice with realism and impressionistic painting, preferring plein air painting. Most of the works were painted while traveling around different countries: France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Mexico, Iceland. During this period she took part in 7 international plein-airs and in more than 5 watercolor biennials.
During the same period, she actively taught, created her own school of watercolor and sketching.
Currently works in series in various media, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, graphite, photography.
Works in the styles of impressionism, abstract impressionism and expressionism.
Works were exhibited in Ukraine, India, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy. Her work was influenced by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Joan Mitchell.
In his work, he explores life, chaos, living reality.
With strong dense movements of the brush on the canvas, multi-layered composition, color movement of paint the artist tries to show that the world is changing right now, new realities are being formed in the space of time and chaos every second.
Dance your life, today, now. Be bright, enjoy, catch the wave. Chaos around you, everything changes. Surrender to the flow of time, find your movement and speed, your rhythm. Live your life. Dance your life.
What inspires you?
Color, dance, movement, wind, mountains, ocean
Describe your creative process.
I dance, I give myself to the process completely. I feel life, chaos, I follow the brush in my hands and the color in my heart.
What are 3 words that best describe your work?
Life, dance, chaos
Who are some artists that have influenced your work?
William Turner, Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Joan Mitchell.
What is the most important tool when creating your work?
Passion ))
What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
Be yourself !
Where do you go for inspiration?
I just dance ))
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS “Whisper of flowers…”, Museum of Fine Arts named after A. Bely
Ukraine, 2021
“Quick sketch exhibition”, Odessa Municipal Museum personal collections them. A.V. Bleshchunova
Ukraine, 2020
SOLO EXHIBITIONS “Pink and red. Metamodern”, Gallery 202, Odessa
Ukraine, 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS “Unnecessary Art” Exhibition-action (performance), Gallery 202, Odessa
Ukraine, 2019
“Paris. Rome. Amsterdam”, Own gallery 202, Odessa
Ukraine, 2019
“1st Malaysia International Watercolor Biennale 2018” , White Box Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia, 2018
“International Watercolor Festival IWS” , Manes Gallery, Prague
Czechia, 2018
“Fabriano in Acquarello” ,International watercolor muzeum, Fabriano
Italy, 2018
“Athens and Piraeus”, Greek Cultural Foundation, Odessa
Ukraine, 2018
“Second biennial watercolor exhibition IWS”, All India Society of Fine Arts and Crafts (AIFACS), New-Deli
India, 2017
“World in watercolor”, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava
Slovakia, 2017