My newest artwork, What the Red Caps Hide: Lime Bloom, was SOLD at the 50x50 Exhibition at Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne.
This tree portrait is inspired by the extraordinary flowers and seed capsules of Eucalyptus macrandra. The vivid red nut caps seem to guard a surprise beneath them: luminous lime-green blossoms that transform the tree into an explosion of colour.
What the Red Caps Hide: Lime Bloom
2026
Acrylic and texture paste on wood
50 × 50 cm
📍 Brunswick Street Gallery
Level 1 & 2, 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065
🗓 Exhibition: 20 June – 3 July
🥂 Opening Night: Friday 26 June, 6–9 pm
🕙 Open Tue–Sat 10am–5pm | Sun 11am–4pm | Closed Mondays
Still time to see the 2026 Fifty Squared Art Prize — Australia’s largest open-call exhibition for wall-based works (50×50cm and under), featuring over 900 artworks. So much incredible work in one space — a true snapshot of contemporary practice.
April 2026 I hosted two intimate painting workshops, each with its own seasonal story. The second one was inspired by European Easter traditions, light-filled spring mornings, and daffodils as their purest embodiment of renewal. ✨ Easter Light & Daffodils Workshop ✨ A hands-on painting workshop held alongside my solo exhibition at Art Space Gallery. We’ll work with simple sculptural techniques using impasto medium and acrylic paint, exploring how light gently settles on form — creating luminous highlights, soft shadows, and a subtle relief surface. This workshop is about slowing down, creating with intention, and building an Easter mood with your own hands. Calm, welcoming, and designed for all skill levels. Art Space Gallery – The Concourse Impasto medium & acrylic on board All materials supplied Suitable for adults — no prior experience needed Suitable for children 12+ Limited to just 10 participants — bookings essential
For me, as for many of my collectors, moving to Australia has been a blessed and life-changing experience. At the same time, it doesn’t erase the feeling of missing home. Memory travels with us — through seasons, colours, familiar landscapes, and small visual details that stay deeply rooted inside. Quite often, Ukrainian collectors commission artworks that reconnect them with home. These might be flowers remembered from a childhood garden, the softness of snow, the glow of golden autumn, or the unmistakable outlines of traditional Ukrainian architecture. These subjects carry emotional weight — they speak of belonging, memory, and personal history. I find great meaning in creating these works, because I share the same feelings. Painting nostalgic themes allows me to revisit places and atmospheres that shaped me, while offering others a visual connection to what they hold dear. The artwork becomes more than an image; it becomes a bridge between past and present, between where we come from and where we are now. Through these commissions, nostalgia turns into something tangible — a way to honour memory, identity, and the enduring connection to home, even when life unfolds far from it.
