Anastasiya Markovych, Portrait of a Woman

Oil, canvas, 40x30 cm

Surrealist painter from Ukraine, known for her many exhibitions and publications, born in the town of Brychany. She says this about herself: "Since childhood my brother and I were surrounded by stacks of various books by our parents, conversations about unusual and fantastic things, about the world and the universe, about the place of man and who he really is._x000B_This all step by step, year after year opened for me the gates to the magical world, to the world of legends, myths, where on earth lived wise and happy people with extraordinary inner strength of theirs. Their Hearts beat strongly, along with their pure Soul, and their words were not blown away by the wind because they were noble. Nature only surrounded them, for they treated it with respect as they treated themselves._x000B_There was no fear in their mind, but courage combined with kindness."