Kateryna Bilokur

Kateryna loved to draw amazing live flowers, and to create her compositions she went to them with an easel, sometimes walking many kilometres in search of them. She said, “I never plucked them, because I believed that flowers have a soul.”

All her life she lived in the village, which she could not leave without the permission of the local authorities, so she had no professional art education and had to work on a collective farm. In the 1950s recognition came, and her works began to be exhibited — in 1954, three of her works were included in an exhibition in Paris.