Oksana Fine Art Gallery & Studio

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Oksana's earliest childhood memories were of her being trapped inside a body cast in a Ukrainian hospital. Two-year old Oksana spent three years in a hospital bed. The nurses gave her paper and pencils to help past the time. Young Oksana learned to escape her hospital prison with her imagination and her art. She created her own world outside the hospital where she was free to be with nature. By the age of eight, Oksana's teachers noted her exceptional talent in art. She challenged and was admitted into the Childrens School of Art in Ternopil, Ukraine. At the age of 17, Oksana graduated with two degrees: her high school diploma and a degree in Art. Oksana continued her studies and received another degree in Art and Architecture in 1990. For fifteen years Oksana worked as an architect. The first six years she practiced architecture in the Ukraine drawing everything by hand. Later in the U.S., she learned and used computer programs for architects. When the US market slowed down in 2007, Oksana turned fulltime to her passion for painting. Trained as a master watercolorist, she has always enjoys painting beautiful things around her. Another layer in Oksana's art comes with the technique she uses in many of her oil paintings. Before the invention of photography, the Flemish painting masters developed a seven-layer technique to paint transparent fabric like veils and to capture the colors under the skin and produce realistic faces not found in earlier two-dimensional work. This technique is very time consuming with each layer having to dry before progressing to the next step. These paintings take months to finish. No matter what the medium, Oksana always focuses on the fine detail, a habit from her training as an architect. There are many layers and many stories in each of the artist's works.