Artworks

Sumy, Ukraine

Eugenia Goncharenko is an artist from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, who paints with traditional materials such as watercolor, ink and pencils. She draws charming illustrations and writes warm fairy tales and wants to do it professionally in the future.

Mariia Tikhonova is an artist born in Mykolaiv, living and working in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Today Mariia creates illustrations to visualize thoughts on the war in Ukraine. But she wants to illustrate children's books and kids magazines. Since the full-scale war started, Mariia began actively creating war diaries in the book “The history of Ukraine” in collage, cutout technique.

Natalie Kozeko is a Ukrainian illustrator from Kyiv. She is working on the production of a multi-part children's animated series about bunnies, which is streamed in more than 60 countries around the world. In her spare time, she does fencing. She and her husband have three cats which they adopted from an animal shelter.

Irina Kostyshina is an artist & graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. She works mainly in editorial illustration and also as a comic artist, combining digital and traditional media in her works. Since the full-scale Russian invasion, Irina has focused on creating war-related illustrations and educational work on her Instagram feed to tell the truth about Ukraine.

Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”

Daria Lutsyshyna is an artist born in Dnipro, living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. Daria creates illustrations, posters, and graphic design. During the full-scale Russian invasion, she focused on illustrating war-related texts, news, her own experience of war, and reflections on its nature and consequences. She believes art is not "outside of politics" and artists and their work matter and can make a difference.

Sumy, Ukraine

Alina Chernushenko is a self-taught Ukrainian artist, based in Lviv. She was trying to find the right place for herself in this life but opened the magic of the art world instead. Art always was her biggest passion, but the most important thing for Alina was to make her art reflective, powerful, and eloquent. When the full-scale invasion started, she realized that the paintings were her weapon too. So, she decided to create illustrations to document the war crimes and terroristic actions of Russia and show the real side of the Ukrainian genocide through art.

NYC, US

Izyum, Ukraine

Stanislava Ovchinnikova is an interdisciplinary artist from Kyiv, Ukraine, now based in Berlin. In her work, bordering with activism, she deals with topics such as death, loss, violence and desensitization. At the moment Stanislava is working on a graphic novel about the Russian war in Ukraine.

Eugenia Goncharenko is an artist from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, who paints with traditional materials such as watercolor, ink and pencils. She draws charming illustrations and writes warm fairy tales and wants to do it professionally in the future.

Arina Panasovska is an artist and illustrator from the occupied city of Kherson, Ukraine. She believes that art is a weapon, and art is the one thing that helped her not to break in wartime. Before the war Arina worked with children’s publishing houses. Today she is planning to transition to commercial illustration and build a new life.

Olena Sheveka is an artist & children's book illustrator from Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Olena graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute knowing with confidence what she wanted in life and followed her dream, but unfortunately, the most terrible event for Ukraine happened. Now she illustrates all the pain and anger that came with the invasion and ruined the plans of millions of Ukrainians.

Eugenia Goncharenko is an artist from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, who paints with traditional materials such as watercolor, ink and pencils. She draws charming illustrations and writes warm fairy tales and wants to do it professionally in the future.

Mariia Tikhonova is an artist born in Mykolaiv, living and working in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Today Mariia creates illustrations to visualize thoughts on the war in Ukraine. But she wants to illustrate children's books and kids magazines. Since the full-scale war started, Mariia began actively creating war diaries in the book “The history of Ukraine” in collage, cutout technique.

Alexandra is an award-winning Ukrainian animator and illustrator, currently in Vienna, Austria. She studied visual communication in Kyiv(KNUCA), Vienna(Angewandte), and London(UAL). In her works she addresses modern, urban, and people-inspired topics, often in a humorous way, using bright colors and mixed media.

Mykolayiv, Ukraine

Eugenia Goncharenko is an artist from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, who paints with traditional materials such as watercolor, ink and pencils. She draws charming illustrations and writes warm fairy tales and wants to do it professionally in the future.

Mariia Tikhonova is an artist born in Mykolaiv, living and working in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Today Mariia creates illustrations to visualize thoughts on the war in Ukraine. But she wants to illustrate children's books and kids magazines. Since the full-scale war started, Mariia began actively creating war diaries in the book “The history of Ukraine” in collage, cutout technique.

Yulia Zinchenko is an illustrator from Kyiv. She draws both digitally and traditionally. When the full-scale war began, she started to paint on the subject of the war in Ukraine in order to convey the events and feelings to the world, and to keep Ukraine’s struggle at the forefront of world news. In the past, she loved to draw her dog the most. She would like to work on illustrations for books and is always open to interesting projects.

Mykolayiv, Ukraine

Ukraine, Kharkiv

Eugenia Goncharenko is an artist from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, who paints with traditional materials such as watercolor, ink and pencils. She draws charming illustrations and writes warm fairy tales and wants to do it professionally in the future.