WHIMSICAL ART IN UKRAINE

EVGENIA GAPCHINSKA calls herself the "number one provider of happiness" in her country, Ukraine.  She definitely creates fun art, which is different from artists in her country and she is the highest paid. Her work is internationally known and she annually has exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, France, Belgium, England, the Netherlands and other countries. 

 Born in 19 74 in Kharkiv into a military family she started her art studies when still a child. After the eighth grade, she entered the Art school de Kharkiv in the department of "teacher of the ArtSchoolfor Children" (art school for children), where only five people were recruited for this department. Three people made it to the end of the training, where they spent just over six years. She graduated with honors. 

In spite of all her art schooling, she did not start her art work till later, working at many jobs including a manicurist, in an advertising agency, and in a plastic sales company. Finally in the mid-1990s she went to work in a gallery and she again began to draw.

In 2000,  she moved to Kiev with her husband and son , where she was able to find patrons for her work.   There, she set up her own art gallery  One wonders if it it still standing, after all the bombings in this capitol city.