We invite you to visit the website dedicated to the work of Ukrainian artist Oksana Vorontsova. Having lived in various artistic centers in Ukraine and Ireland, she was influenced by various artistic movements, including avant-garde, but at the same time she is looking for traditional national forms and character models, which is primarily expressed in her series of landscapes and portraits.

The range of Oksana’s work is very diverse and includes monumental and easel painting, scenography, iconography, graphics and decorative arts.

Oksana Vorontsova tends to impressionism, however, she gives her works a variety of individual and peculiar colors. In her landscapes, the artist represents a connection with her homeland and the native land she was forced to leave after the full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022. She sees the true natural essence and being of the subject and usually in small formats using a palette of colors filled with chiaroscuro and gradations of harmonious shades. Born in Nikopol, Ukraine, Ms. Oksana’s landscapes depict the Dnipro, Black and Azov Seas and continue this “maritime epic” in her depictions of the Atlantic Ocean surrounding her new home, Ireland. She is an excellent painter and a connoisseur of her homeland.

Oksana Vorontsova’s portraits do not depict a realistic image of a person, but their psychological essence and true character. Men, women and children in the portraits radiate courage and inner strength of spirit. Like the Cossacks and modern Ukrainian soldiers, they are full of determination, militancy and dignity.

In each series, Ms. Vorontsova strives to create her own macrocosm of ideas and images that are closely connected to the philosophy of her native land and soil. Oksana Vorontsova received a professional art education and has extensive experience in theater scenography, floristry, iconography and decorative arts. She is a member of the West Cork Artists’ Union in Ireland and has participated in exhibitions of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in Dnipro and Kyiv. In 2023, a personal exhibition of works was held in Bandon, Ireland.

Veronika Skip, art historian, Master of Arts.